![]() ![]() It's the idea that sometimes children just don't fit into the lives their parents and families and communities seem to have mapped out for them, and when there is no balance to be struck and no understanding of who those children really are - sometimes they find their way to worlds where they truly belong. That's something that has been baked into the series from the opening pages of Every Heart a Doorway ( my review). And theyĪs much as any of the previous four Wayward Children novellas, Come Tumbling Down is a story about identity. ![]() ![]() Whatever they might have been when they'd been cast out of theirĬhosen homes, they'd been heroes once, each in their own ways. It was also, more importantly, a holding pen for Place to put the unfinished stories and the broken wanderers who couldīutcher a deer and string a bow but no longer remembered what to do with It's part of a person's identity.Įleanor West's Home for Wayward Children was an island of misfit toys, a ![]() October Daye refers to herself as a hero, but in those novels, in faerie it appears to be more of a job title than something that an individual is called for a particular act. Over the last two years I've been working my way through as much of Seanan McGuire's work as I could pour directly into my brain and I've been thinking about how McGuire uses the idea of a hero. ![]()
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