In Mercy, Rain: A Tor.Com Original Wayward Children Story
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Jack Walcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible staircase and found herself in the Moors, a world of drowned gods and repugnant royals.
After abandoning her sister to a vampire lord, and under the tutelage of a mad scientist who can do impossible things with flesh and living lightning, Jack quickly learns that in the Moors, death is merely a suggestion.
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Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is the author of Every Heart a Doorway, the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and several other works, both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's a good book...but I am getting rather tired of Jack and Jill. Yet another detailed bit, this time of how Jack settles in with her mad scientist mentor (and develops her phobia of dirt, and her coping mechanisms), and meets the girl that's going to be a deciding factor later on. So not quite as early as their arrival, but before any of the other stories about them (Jill is barely mentioned, mostly in order to contrast Jack's life with what hers (presumably) is).
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5IN MERCY, RAIN, by @seananmcguire, is the story of how Jack and Alexis meet, but more importantly, it’s also the story of how Jack *becomes* the Jack we know from the main series. Yes, it’s a short story, but McGuire is able to create so much nuance in this story, about Jack and her relationship with the people of the Moors and to Dr. Bleak, even giving us some small insight into his story, as well. The joy I find in these books is the infinite number of stories possible, and how in even something so short and to the point as this short story, McGuire is able to create something so much larger than the sum of its parts.I’ve seen quite a bit of hate on this story, that it’s unnecessary, that the Wolcott twins are overused, and I’m not sure I understand. To me, the twins are some of the most interesting characters in a series already chockablock with interesting characters; I’ll take any new stories about them I can get.IN MERCY, RAIN is free to read on tor.com, or you can purchase it as a Kindle edition.#books #bookstagram #book #booklover #reading #bookworm #bookstagrammer #bookinfluencer #read #booknerd #bookaddict #bookreview #booksofinstagram #instabook #readingtime #bookblog #blogger #bookrecommendation #booksbooksbooks #readersofinstagram #reader #booklove #instabooks #waywardchildren #seananmcguire #frommybookshelfblog #frommybookshelf #bookish #fantasy #bookreview
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In Mercy, Rain - Seanan McGuire
Jack Wolcott was twelve years old when she descended an impossible staircase tucked away inside her grandmother’s old costume chest and found herself in the sort of wild, magical land that people who had never once been to wild, magical lands enjoyed writing stories about. She suspected that some of those people might have had impossible staircases of their own, staircases that ended at doors entreating travelers to be sure,
as if anyone could be sure of anything after going down so many stairs.
She further suspected that none of those people had found stairways to the Moors. She’d never been encouraged to read fairy stories, or she might have known better than to open the door, but she’d grown up in a world full of them, and exposure to the background radiation of childhood had been enough to give her the basic shape of the worlds people liked to dream about, worlds where children could fly in veils of pixie dust, or grow bigger and smaller by drinking the right flasks of improperly labeled chemicals, or become royalty by stumbling out of the right wardrobe. None of those worlds looked like the Moors. Children could fly here, if they were gargoyles from the high castles, or if they had masters unethical enough to graft a bird’s wings onto their shoulder blades, where they would inevitably shred muscle and pulverize bone, but might offer a moment’s flight before that messy end. Drinking improperly labeled chemicals might cause uncontrolled growth, fungal and ceaseless, until death was a dream to be aspired to. And as for royalty …
The idea was repugnant. Jack had seen the people who called themselves lords and ladies, masters and mistresses, and she wanted nothing of them. No: those stories had not been written by travelers to her sweet and bitter land, sharp as a promise, brutal as a thorn. No one who had seen the Moors would encourage children to go through impossible doors, to listen to the entreating of silent signs. Even the ones who loved the Moors, as she did, completely and with all their hearts, couldn’t be so