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A review by audra_spiven
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Did not finish book.
1.0
I wasn't able to finish this one. I really wanted to like it, especially after finding out that Seanan McGuire and Mira Grant are one in the same. I loved Mira Grant's mermaid book whose title I can't even remember right now but whose story was so riveting I could not put it down from start to finish. This book is a different genre with a different tone and premise and intended for a totally different audience, and it just did not hit with me. I was sad to let it go, but I spent two months trying to read it and being bored with it, so I finally gave myself permission to give up and take it back to the library. I think there definitely IS a perfect audience for this book. I'm just not it.
If I had to sum up this book (and why it doesn't resonate with me) it would be this: It's Alice in Wonderland, but more modern, and possibly less linear, if that's possible. I know Alice in Wonderland is a classic, and I know it is totally some people's cup of tea, but it isn't mine. I've read Alice (as well as Through the Looking-Glass), and I can only appreciate them BECAUSE they are so famous and so beloved. But ultimately they aren't for me, and certainly neither are books that fall under that same nonsense/silliness umbrella.
If I had to sum up this book (and why it doesn't resonate with me) it would be this: It's Alice in Wonderland, but more modern, and possibly less linear, if that's possible. I know Alice in Wonderland is a classic, and I know it is totally some people's cup of tea, but it isn't mine. I've read Alice (as well as Through the Looking-Glass), and I can only appreciate them BECAUSE they are so famous and so beloved. But ultimately they aren't for me, and certainly neither are books that fall under that same nonsense/silliness umbrella.