@anathema I loved this book! So many really good characters, all complicated and wonderful.
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Ell wants to read A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
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@cblgh@bookwyrm.social Oh dang, definitely adding this to my list! Thanks!
Ell rated Beneath the Sugar Sky: 3 stars
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #3)
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children …
Ell rated In an Absent Dream: 4 stars
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #4)
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
Ell rated Come Tumbling Down: 4 stars
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
Ell finished reading Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
I loved all of these books in their own ways, but this may have been my favorite. Jack is such a good character, and there were a lot of good Kade moments, and it was dark and messy and good.
Ell quoted Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
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)
Ell commented on Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
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 😭
Ell quoted Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
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)
Ell started reading Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)
Ell finished reading In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #4)
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #4)
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
Ell started reading In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #4)
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #4)
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and …
Ell finished reading Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #3)
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #3)
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children …