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A review by crowsandprose
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
3.0
I really love Seanan's work. Love it to death. But... this I didn't love.
This book left me cold for reasons I both can and can't explain. It wasn't a bad book, but neither was it the phenomenal read on a subject I thought she'd both give both life and love to. Disappointing, in a word. Not because it's bad, but because it's merely okay.
There's a heavy handedness here. A bit of preaching, a lot of wonder, worlds that needed to be built and expanded upon, words that those of us who have walked, in our way, the Portals will get... but while the characters were vibrant the world felt like a half-baked cake. Sure, it would still be tasty on the tongue (and who doesn't like batter?), but it'd still not be what I expected or wanted.
I feel like it needed to be longer, better fleshed. We needed more time with these really vibrant characters to really care that they start snuffing it. But we didn't get that.
So-- a half-baked cake of a book. Tasty, but not what it should have been. So, three starts.
This book left me cold for reasons I both can and can't explain. It wasn't a bad book, but neither was it the phenomenal read on a subject I thought she'd both give both life and love to. Disappointing, in a word. Not because it's bad, but because it's merely okay.
There's a heavy handedness here. A bit of preaching, a lot of wonder, worlds that needed to be built and expanded upon, words that those of us who have walked, in our way, the Portals will get... but while the characters were vibrant the world felt like a half-baked cake. Sure, it would still be tasty on the tongue (and who doesn't like batter?), but it'd still not be what I expected or wanted.
I feel like it needed to be longer, better fleshed. We needed more time with these really vibrant characters to really care that they start snuffing it. But we didn't get that.
So-- a half-baked cake of a book. Tasty, but not what it should have been. So, three starts.