The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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Oh boy so good. I love this book, it is its own door
0It feels quite difficult to rate and review this one, because the truth is halfway through it put me into a 3 months reading slump, and then I spent the following 3 months after returning to reading by avoiding finishing it and instead reading other books. That also means that when finally reading the second half, I had forgotten a lot of the detail of the first. That said, it's also true that the notes I took while reading it (including the first half) are admittedly generally positive - that it was a book about yearning for Elsewhere and navigating otherness, had emotions that really lept off the page, and was precisely the kind of book I typically love. In fact, I first found it specifically because it was so highly recommended for fans of The Starless Sea, which is one of my favorite books. I really can't pinpoint why it landed so wonkily for me. Maybe I'd give it a reread in the future, but for now I'd probably only recommend it to those with an existing interest in a (sort of) split-POV portal fantasy and who don't mind a more mentally laborious read.
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