
Book guide
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Before Jack and Jill came home, they walked into a world of mad science, monsters, and terrible choices.
GenresFantasyDark Fantasy
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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



