A review by prettyghostboy
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It's very clear imo that these are some of the Author's fav characters.  Enjoyable backstory for two central actors in the first book.  I think about the structure of these books a lot - there's a part of me that thinks that if you spliced the Every Heart A Doorway and this book together it would build the tension of that book more elegantly.  But IDK! I still enjoy this one a lot! I think putting it in the context of the rest of the books in this series, it's a great prototype for the structure of this series (odds being present timeline/ evens being flashbacks)