Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first…Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was...
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Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first…Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780765392039 (0765392038)
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: Wayward Children (#2)
Did I like it or didn't I ? I don't know ! It read like a Lemony Snicket book. It's hard for me to feel anything when I don't like any of the characters, none of them. The story was cool, different and had so much to explore but the cast. There were just so unlikable to me I don't really care what h...
This series has been a blast to read. This is the story of the twins from the first book and could be read before or after the first. They do stand alone but this explains some of what happens in Every Heart a Doorway. Twins are brought up with rigid stereotypes and then they find a doorway to a...
This was almost disappointingly more of the same, but I still enjoyed it. 'Down Among the Sticks and Bones' follows twins Jack and Jill and how they came to the Home for Wayward Children, and why they left it in the manner that they did. By necessity this was more tinged with horror and gives a few ...
The trouble with denying children the freedom to be themselves - with forcing them into an idea of what they should be, not allowing them to choose their own paths - is that all too often, the one drawing the design knows nothing of the desires of their model. Children are not formless clay, to be s...
I was actually into this, but that ending. This author is amazing at endings in her other series, and this one was so open ended I had no real idea what she was trying to tell me; by springing that on me, it felt like everything she had been building up fell apart. I'm going to continue reading...
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