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A review by wazbar
The Door Into Shadow by Diane Duane
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
It's incredible just how much happens in the door into shadow. Every chapter of this book could be like 30-50% of the main plot of a more cowardly book.
I love almost everything about this book but I do not love the extremely graphic review of Segnbora's repressed memory. It was both disturbing in its own right and narratively disappointing because it is exactly the same twist as in the Door into Fire. However, that repressed memory was so outlandish it was reasonable to assume no reader would have experienced it. Here, however, it's child abuse and springing a detailed description of that on the reader sucks!
In brief comparison to the Door into Fire: way more dragons, only slightly less gay.
I love almost everything about this book but I do not love the extremely graphic review of Segnbora's repressed memory. It was both disturbing in its own right and narratively disappointing because it is exactly the same twist as in the Door into Fire. However, that repressed memory was so outlandish it was reasonable to assume no reader would have experienced it. Here, however, it's child abuse and springing a detailed description of that on the reader sucks!
In brief comparison to the Door into Fire: way more dragons, only slightly less gay.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse and Rape