#Come Tumbling Down

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Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children series)

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Guests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.

No matter the cost.

Fantasy, portal fantasy, mystery, magical realism, boarding school, novella, series, adult

Imperial Radch series (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Provenance, Translation State, and other stories) by Ann Leckie

Endorsement from submitter: "Breq/Justice of Toren is a ship AI and doesn't have a gender. The Radchaai language only has one pronoun for people, so (almost) everyone in the empire is she/her, to the point that they're infamous for failing to correctly guess which pronoun to use with outsiders."

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

Science fiction, space opera, far future, series, adult

[lottiesoka]

my favorite mad scientist 💙

[nerves-nebula]

Down Among the Sticks and Bones & Come Tumbling Down have such a good sibling relationship. Like yea I love you yeah I’m sorry yea I know you needed someone to care about you and that didn’t happen but I went through it too and you’re a little monster now and you have to die. And it’s gonna hurt forever.

Anyway the wayward children series absolutely obliterates me because it HURTS and I know if I was in this would I should’ve been sent to that world slightly to the left or ours where I’d finally feel at home

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[the-lavender-creator]

Is there a Wayward Children fans discord server btw or do I need to make one proper

[sophiesbookishthings]

January Reads

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

My non fiction read for the year! I listened to the audio book for this one which I definitely recommend. Jennette McCurdy deserves only good things for the rest of her life.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

Wayward Children #5! Such an underrated series. Jack and Jill and the moors are my favorite. Also it's gay.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Queer cozy fantasy! I loved how chill and kind this book was.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I think about this book daily. The way everything tied together in this book was brilliant. I loved the concept of the reveurs in particular.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Ah the faerie books. I finally gave in and read this. It was fine. It was very basic fantasy romance. It wasn't bad, it was just unfortunately overhyped. Don't love the mc though she's kinda annoying.

3.75/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️

Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

Lord of the rings my beloved! I could scream about any lotr book forever so I'm just gonna say Samwise Gamgee is the character ever and I love faramir and he deserves only good things forever. Also the ending of this series takes my heart out and stomps on it.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

Tj Klune is a master of found family and I will read everything he writes forever. This book also had an autistic ace mc, an anxious roomba, and a sadistic nurse droid and I adored every single one of them.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

I feel like I should like this book more than I did. The mc just felt too perfect and like a societal ideal of masculinity that I really didn't care about that much. And I think to some extent it may have been the point but it still felt off to me. Started this in print and switched to audio cause the writing was not my favorite. Idk if I'll continue this series or not.

3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

I went into this thinking it was about a satyr because of the cover. I was disappointed a few chapters in when I realized it was not. I did however really enjoy this book anyway. Very interesting how it resolves.

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas

Definitely better than acotar. Feyre's somewhat less annoying. Still think this series is overhyped but I do get it now. Also I don't get why everyone acts like this is straight porn. It's so tame lol but I read fanfic so 🤷. I do appreciate that this book went more into the politics of the world. Definitely made it more interesting.

4.5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨️

[shannon-loves-bones]

Christopher Flores ✨️💀🏵🦴☀️

[goodgrammaritan]

"Would it have killed her to go jogging once in awhile?" she asked, a note of fear behind the peevishness. She was going into battle while wearing a body whose limitations she didn't understand and had no time to learn. "I swear, 'I'm going to become a deathless creature of the night' is not a substitute for a comprehensive fitness plan."

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

[thelivingmemegod]

Give me all of the info there is about Gideon please

There really isn’t much. He’s a traveler like jack and jill, looks like he was called by the drowned gods and either he gave himself over, or he was a drowning pirate who they “saved”- given the tentacle leg and the pirate like red clothes.

He’s nosy, thinks he’s hot but only to be stared at from afar. He’s to be worshipped as high priest, ya know? It’s unclear if he knows how to fight, I’d believe either way, but if he can he doesn’t look like it.

That’s about it.

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Round 3, Match 6

In Which A Great Many Cats Express Opinions (Calling on Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede)

Write Your Name In Lighting; Shame the Sky (Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire)

[godzilla-reads]

🌩️ Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children Series Book 5)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

“Whoever said heroism was fair?“ she asked. "It’s the unfairest thing of all. ‘Come, oh human child, and learn to swing a sword for the sake of people who’ve decided the thing you’re best for is dying in their name.’ We were lambs for the slaughter, all of us, and if we’ve survived, it’s not because we’re special. Come on. Let’s be heroes one more time.”

Jack is back! The powers of the Moors are shifting as Jill steals Jack’s body and the latter must ask for help from her old friends to bring balance back to her home.

I actually started reading this book back in July when I was on my Wayward Children kick, but I stopped because the beginning of this book felt kinda slow as they struggled on getting back to the Moors. But I started it over again and finished it in two sittings!

I think it was mostly timing and I loved the story, the monstrosities, the science, and the lore of the Moors, the balance of things. I also loved how much they spoke about what it means to be a hero. Since I’m back in the swing, I’ll be reading Book 6: Across the Green Grass Fields.

[lottiesoka]

“I think the rules were different there. It was all about science, but the science was magical. It didn’t care about whether something could be done. It was about whether it should be done, and the answer was always, always yes.”

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘Lost in a Moment and Found’ (#8 Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire

A girl runs away from an unsafe home to work in a mystical shop… Genre: YA, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+ No. of pages: 146 Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood… it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed…

[ace-of-garlic-breads]

Cringetober day 12: Niche Interest, (Jill from @seananmcguire 's Wayward children series)

she's such a fun character and I LOVED her storyline in the books she appears in) (YES I know she's blonde in the books. I just can only see her and her sister as redheads

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[shesamreads]

With the description, I wasn't expecting this installment to be from Christopher's pov.

[dixkens]

Started posting a new fic this past week based on Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series.

Two snippets from Come Tumbling Down led to this fic. First, Gideon, high priest of the Abbey of the Drowned Gods, telling Jack "I never lose" and her response "I'm counting on it." And second, the idea that the drowned gods would have preferred Cora to Gideon. So here is my take on what might have happened if she'd stayed rather than returning to her world of origin. - Fic is complete, I'll post a chapter per week until finished.

Content warnings: There will be a blood mention and discussion of human sacrifice (topic is why it isn't going to happen) in ch 2.