★★☆☆☆ In Mercy, Rain, by Seanan McGuire
Plugs a small narrative gap in the Jack Wolcott story
In Mercy, Rain
Seanan McGuire
Plugs a small narrative gap in the Jack Wolcott story
In Mercy, Rain is a Wayward Children short released by Seanan McGuire for free on Tor's website or, if you want to read it on your kindle, you can buy it from Amazon. It plugs a small narrative gap between the two Wayward Children's books about Jack and Jill Wolcott, Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Come Tumbling Down.
At the beginning of Come Tumbling Down we learn that, back in the Moors, Jack took as lover one of the village girls, Alexis. In Mercy, Rain tells Alexis' story and how Jack and Alexis came together. If you've read Come Tumbling Down you already knew how this story was going to go.
I was disappointed. I don't mind reading pre-spoiled stories, but nothing in this one was very interesting.