Come Tumbling Down

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, 206 pages

*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones*

In this fifth book of McGuire's Wayward Children series, we return to the dreary, horrific Moors, home world for twins Jack and Jill. At the end of Every Heart a Doorway (book 1 in this series), mad scientist-in-training Jack has killed her evil-yet-frilly twin Jill and is taking her body back through their door to the Moors. When this book starts, that door is reappearing, with someone who appears to be Jill being dragged through by yet another girl. But "Jill" is actually Jack in Jill's reanimated body — turns out Jack and her mad scientist mentor, Dr. Bleak, resurrected Jill, and then Jill's vampire master made Dr. Bleak swap their bodies so he could turn Jill into a vampire. So Jack has returned to Eleanor West's to ask her friends for help defeating Jill and her vampire master, and in getting her own body back.

Does that plot summary sound like a crappy B-movie? Yup. But I SWEAR no plot summary can do justice to McGuire's intricately drawn characters and the very real feelings they have. I'm constantly amazed by her writing, and this book is no exception. Another fantastic entry in this series.