In Mercy, Rain

A Tor. Com Original , #7.5

eBook, 32 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2022 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-1-250-87512-9
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3 stars (1 review)

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.

2 editions

reviewed In Mercy, Rain by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #7.5)

A strange world where a mad scientist teaches his apprentice the art of bring life back to the newly dead

3 stars

(This story is part of the author's Wayward Children series, which I have never read, so I'm treating this story as it is without reference to the series.)

A story about a pair of twins who wander into another world whose main protagonist are a vampire and a 'mad' scientist, it follows one of the twins who became an apprentice to the scientist. Despite not liking things touching her bare skin, she becomes adapt in the arts of anatomy, curing ills and the ability to resurrect the newly dead. But it is all in preparation for eventually meeting her sister, who has become the daughter of the vampire. But along the way, she would have to deal with new emotions upon helping to resurrect the dead daughter of farmers and getting to know her better.