Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

4 reviews

heshanks's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Racism

Moderate: Sexism, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

skbat's review

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Self harm, Animal death, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

spineofthesaurus's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Drug use, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Ableism, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Stalking

eruby's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

This is a good book. Interesting premise, beautiful writing, loveable characters, a dog sidekick that doesn't die, the plot coming together nicely at the end. I only wish I had read it earlier in my life. At its core, this is a coming of age story, a story of a sheltered 17 year old embarking on an adventure and finding out the world isn't everything she had been told it was. It is a story of a girl who finds freedom after spending her life chafing against the strict rules, and learning about heartbreak, resilience, and tragedy along the way. These are themes that I know would have resonated very strongly with me when I was in high school and college and that I still connect with at 27 but just not as strongly. There are certain elements of this book that feel like a young adult novel (though I didn't see it billed as YA), aside from the main character being a teenager- mainly that the symbolism and thematic elements are very in-your-face (for example,

the character closing the doors being named Locke

). I also think I've been reading too much high fantasy with hard magic systems and deep lore because I had to stop myself from thinking too deeply about the mechanics of these doors. Like, why doesn't time progress differently between the different worlds? Does our world and The Written have a special relationship in that the people can reproduce, or can all people from all worlds reproduce? Why are there three known doors to The Written but only one for every other world? But these questions don't really matter and explanations wouldn't actually add much to the story, so now I'm just rambling. 

All that said, I really enjoyed this book and I think if it existed and I had read it 5-10 years ago I would have given it five stars instead of 4.25.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Colonisation