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ladyr 's review for:
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
This book is beautiful inside and out and Harrow’s prose is sublime. This doesn’t feel like a debut.
I loved January: a courageous and feisty heroine and I do love a good coming of age story. Also I was born in January myself so this story carried extra significance.
Overall this book is 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for me for the following reasons: the pacing of this story seriously slows in the middle and I struggled at times to keep engaged.
Overall this plot has been used before especially in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (which is part of my all-time favourite trilogy) and I couldn’t get away from the fact the themes of this book felt, whilst beautifully written, felt repeated from another much-loved book.
That said I will definitely recommend this book and I can’t wait to see what Harrow writes next
I loved January: a courageous and feisty heroine and I do love a good coming of age story. Also I was born in January myself so this story carried extra significance.
Overall this book is 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for me for the following reasons: the pacing of this story seriously slows in the middle and I struggled at times to keep engaged.
Overall this plot has been used before especially in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (which is part of my all-time favourite trilogy) and I couldn’t get away from the fact the themes of this book felt, whilst beautifully written, felt repeated from another much-loved book.
That said I will definitely recommend this book and I can’t wait to see what Harrow writes next