I also really like being blown away by a discussion that is beautifully woven into the story seamlessly. I think what I love about this series is seeing these kids find their portal worlds, miss their portal worlds, return to their portal worlds, while discovering everything alongside them. And Jack and Alexis think they need the help of their old friends to switch back their bodies before it is too late! (Even though, Jack very much takes care of everything in hindsight.)
But basically, Jill wants to become a vampire more than anything, and she needed a body that would be capable of becoming one. This book does pick up with Jack and Jill and their new life in the Moors, but this time Jill has managed to switch bodies with Jack and I’ll be honest, this was not a plot twist I expected nor wanted. Sadly, this just left like a very unnecessary addition to their story, that lacked the depth, empathy, and happiness from before. I had the highest of hopes for this installment, because Jack and Jill’s story in Down Among the Sticks and Bones meant so very much to me.
I’ll be honest, I am still so extremely surprised to be giving a Wayward Children book less than five stars. It sinks in its claws and it doesn't let go." (Jan.2.) Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★ New and returning readers alike will be enthralled. Themes of sacrifice, love, and hope weave through this grim yet achingly tender tale. She enlists the help of her old friends at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children to get her body back before Jill and the Master destroy the Moors entirely. For Jack, who has OCD, being trapped in another’s form is a nightmare.
Jill’s body, which died and was reanimated once before, is unable to become a vampire, so to achieve her dream Jill betrays her sister, forcing Jack to undergo a painful procedure to swap their bodies. Bleak and settle down with her reanimated fiancée, while deranged Jill dreams of being adopted by the vampire Master. Back in their menacing home world, the Moors, sensible Jack has no higher ambition than to apprentice to the scientist Dr. The dark, beguiling fifth entry in McGuire’s Wayward Children series, about a boarding school for visitors from portal worlds, continues the story of polar opposite twin sisters Jack and Jill Wolcott from the second book, 2017’s Down Among the Sticks and Bones.
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