The Ten Thousand Doors of January | Alix E Harrow | Magical Realism | Book Review

 

Name of Book: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Author: Alix E.Harrow

Publisher: Redhook / Orbit

Publication Date: May 12, 2020

No. of Pages: 385

Format: Digital

ACCORDING TO JANUARY SCALLER, THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO RUN AWAY FROM YOUR OWN STORY, AND THAT'S TO SNEAK INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S . . .

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 artefacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place.

But her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across 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 reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

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A former academic, adjunct, cashier, blueberry-harvester, and Kentuckian, Alix E. Harrow is now a full-time writer living in Virginia with her husband and their semi-feral kids.

She is the Hugo Award-winning and NYT-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), and various short fiction. Her next book, STARLING HOUSE will be out on Halloween 2023.

My Opinion

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is an interesting book on magical realism about a girl's journey. It had a wonderful start with all the fantasy of a girl named January. Although I am not very fond of YA fantasy, the title was intriguing. I read it as a part of #52Booksin52Weeks in Hybrid Genre. 

 

Despite its charming start, it could not interest me further to finish it. The plot is too slow, and the scenes randomly hop from one to another without any real connection. Maybe I am too old to read this one. The characters also felt confused, sprouting suddenly. After reading more than half of the book, I felt it was not going anywhere. January's character was inspired by the same theme, where a girl wants to be free from a tyrant uncle, the same old trick. I would give the book only 3 stars.

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