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A review by lady_mair
The Door Before by N.D. Wilson
3.0
3 1/2 STARS
I wanted to give this book 4 or 5 stars, I really did. It was SO exciting to return to the world of the cupboards. This was definitely a mash up of 100 Cupboards world-building + Ashtown Burials creepiness. The characters were better than a lot of Wilson's other novels of late...but it still didn't carry quite the same punch as Cupboards. It felt like a lot of fan service (oh here's the raggant, here's a grumpy faeren, here's a young Rupert Greeves, etc.) Still not quite sure what I think of a combined universe... Then again, this book kept me up late several nights...and I felt a thrill when Mordecai & Caleb showed up and Mordecai used his vines...
Ah well. Here's hoping we get that last Ashtown book someday soon.
I wanted to give this book 4 or 5 stars, I really did. It was SO exciting to return to the world of the cupboards. This was definitely a mash up of 100 Cupboards world-building + Ashtown Burials creepiness. The characters were better than a lot of Wilson's other novels of late...but it still didn't carry quite the same punch as Cupboards. It felt like a lot of fan service (oh here's the raggant, here's a grumpy faeren, here's a young Rupert Greeves, etc.) Still not quite sure what I think of a combined universe... Then again, this book kept me up late several nights...and I felt a thrill when Mordecai & Caleb showed up and Mordecai used his vines...
Ah well. Here's hoping we get that last Ashtown book someday soon.