Down Among the Sticks and Bones

i enjoyed mcguire's writing, same as last time, but it wasn't as easy to enjoy the world with such a limited, miserable cast. the Moors are not a happy place, and Jack and Jill are not very happy children, with supremely unlikable parents.

there was a kind of gross fascination with watching things go downhill for the twins, which you know they will from the start - because that's why they were even in Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children's from the first book in the first place.

the world is so interesting, i can't help but wish that these books were more than novellas. i want to know more about the doorways, and the worlds behind them, and the characters in them!

i have to admit, i was confusing jack & jill for each other up until the point where they finally separate lol. i struggled with telling them apart in the first book as well.