Seventeen-year-old Wolfgang Schaefer's only chance to escape the city of Doors and the doppelganger out to kill him is to find the one door that accepts humans. While searching, Wolfgang uncovers a secret which makes him doubt everything he thought was true about himself, his missing father, and the motives of the factions who rule the city. Together with a horse called Pilgrim and his best friend the seductive, blond changeling Marie, Wolfgang realizes that escape might not be possible without turning into the thing he hates most—a monster.
This is a story about a guy, Wolfgang, who desperately attempts to hold on to his humanity in a world where humanity and all that is stable is rapidly disappearing. Although two very different stories, this book reminds me a bit of the Gunslinger series by Stephen King, in the sense that you have a band of unlikely heroes looking and passing through doors to alternative universes and are largely responsible for saving the world. Although it was written for young adults, I enjoyed it a great deal.