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Jack laughed. It wasn't a happy sound, not exactly; it was the sound of someone clinging to the last vestiges of sanity and stability with all their might. It was the sound of slipping.
— Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5) (Page 142)
I am worried
Content warning early plot spoilers (ch. 2), minor series context spoilers
Barely three chapters in and I'm once again crying about my fave trans kid. Context: a former student shows up in the wrong body (like, literal body swap situation) and is a wreck, Kade is called in to help.
So before anything, he runs upstairs to his wardrobe - he doesn't know how to get her in the right body yet, but he does know how to get her into a waistcoat instead of the dress that is extremely not her, so that's priority one.
Because if anyone knows how important clothes are to feeling yourself when everything else feels wrong it's Kade. There's a reason he made it his job to make sure every student has clothes that fit them, inside and out. I love this kid so much 😭
Clothes matter. Clothes are part of how you learn to feel like yourself, and not someone who just happens to look like you.
— Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5) (Page 41)
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children …
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children …
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's …
An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple act of friendship can change …
Picked this back up, and it continues to be fascinating and unfathomably large in scope, this last half has been somewhat slower-paced, almost contemplative at times. Two parts to go, very interested to see how this all wraps up!
Content warning more major spoilers, more predictions
"And more important, Rocky's people die." Okay yes, very noble and all, but let's be real: the survival of your singular metallic crab boyfriend is of equal importance at minimum here.
Also I want to be clear that I mean the platonic part, this is bromance of its purest and highest form, male friendship that defies and transcends masculine boundaries of relationship with deep abiding trust and mutual admration built across not only language barriers, but differences in ever possibly way down to the literal foundational way they perceive the world.
Am I reading much into this? Yes, as is my right. Platonicness notwithstanding, will I seek out Grocky slash fiction/art when this is all done? Most definitely. Will I shamelessly reuse this comment in my eventual review? You bet!
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity …
Content warning more major spoilers, more predictions
Okay yep, that didn't take long: "I can go home. I really can..." but you're not gonna, you big lug, because you're in brokenhearted love with your platonic space crab engineer boyfriend and given a second chance at being selfless and sacrificing yourself for the greater good, this time for a planet of aliens that are unimaginably different from you (but also so much the same that you're in love with one), of course you're gonna run headlong to your death.
Still 50/50 on magically having the cake and eating it too, I don't trust that Weir has it in him to actually kill the dude off. Survival half is split into a 25/25 between going back to Earth vs permanent space suit and living out the rest of his days in crabville. "Rocky, you're a genius!" with a big sobby xenonite-bubble hug in either case tho.
