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Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire

Before Jack and Jill came home, they walked into a world of mad science, monsters, and terrible choices.

Genre and trope pairingsFantasyMentorFantasyPortal fantasyDark FantasyVampire
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About Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Twin sisters Jacqueline and Jillian are shaped into opposite ideals by parents more invested in appearances than love. At twelve, they descend an impossible staircase into a strange and dangerous world, where magic, death, and choice remake them long before they arrive at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.

Reading signals

Spice
Light
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Balanced

Series

Wayward Children · Book 2 of 12

Content warnings
  • death
  • fat shaming
  • minor gore
  • infertility mention
  • murder
  • mysophobia
  • parental abuse

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