Each of the parents molds one of the daughters into what they want with no care or regard for who they really are. Jacqueline and Jillian (as they were named at birth) are born to people who are good parents in terms of providing them a home, but terrible parents in terms of how they force their own wants and desires on them. In this book, we learn how the two grew up, how they found their door, and what their world is like. Jack and Jill are twin sisters who were introduced in book one. In the second book, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, we get to explore the origin story of Jack and Jill. The common denominator? They’ve all been forced to return “home.” All of these children have somehow visited different lands – of all different varieties. In the first Wayward Children book, Every Heart a Doorway, we were introduced to Miss West’s Home for Wayward Children, where children are given a safe place to recover from their otherworldly experiences. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero’s heart. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices. They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you’ve got. Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter-adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter-polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. This is the story of what happened first… Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.
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