A review by littlemiao
Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed the fifth book in the series a little more than the previous ones. I think the more I listen to them, the more used to this particular narrative framework I become. There is a lot of “I see what you’re doing there” kind of elements that make them more like didactic fairytales rather than stories I can get lost in. The characters are more like types than real characters to me, and part of that is because the stories are so short than I don’t get to spend much time understanding any given character. Also, everyone has to fit their portal world, which means that whichever aspect of their personality makes them a match for that portal world is what gets emphasized in the stories. Hence they are somewhat one dimensional.