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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Alix E. Harrow

Start date: February 5, 2023

Finish date: March 5, 2023

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What Members Thought

Aug 12, 2024 Shan ~A~ rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, paranormal, historical, millionaire-billionaire, audio, young-adult, fantasy, crime, kidnapped, setting-us-vermont

January Scaller, Mr. Locke, Julian Scaller, Janet, Samuel Zappia

Alix E. Harrow knows how to weave a tale. She had me hooked from the beginning. This book has another book within it that is very important to January's story.

I spent most of this book going from feeling sorry for the very sheltered January, wondering what happened to her mother, why her father didn't do more to spend time with her, and wondering who Mr. Locke was and why her father trusted him to take care of her. All the while wo ...more

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Mar 16, 2020 Marie (UK) rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020-reading-challenge

I am unsure how to rate this book. The novel tells the story of doors between worlds that open only rarely and only for some people. It uses a "three line whip" to weave its storyline but that, of itself, led to some of my difficulties. One of the narrative lines was written almost as a scholarly paper with references and was extremely difficult to grasp contextually. I struggled entirely to find my way through the mire of the first half of this book and yet ---. The second half blended the stor ...more

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Jan 19, 2022 Donna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-read, 2022

Wow. I loved this book. Hard to describe, just read it!

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Feb 25, 2022 Caitlin added it · review of another edition

4.5 stars

This was beautifully written but I found it easy to miss or forget details—there's so much going on! There were a couple of times where I had to go back and re-read sections, and at the end I ended up skimming about 1/3 of the book again to try and tie up some issues I couldn't figure out. ...more

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