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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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Jun 17, 2022 akacya ❦ rated it really liked it

Shelves: audience-young-adult, genre-fantasy, format-physical, own, buddy-reads

when january scaller finds a strange book, she’s not expecting for it to tell of other worlds—specifically, other worlds accessed by doors. as she reads on, january uncovers more and more secrets, attracting unwanted attention from people who don’t want her to know these things, and the book becomes more entwined with her own life.

this book was so poetic! i truly loved the writing style. there were so many quotable passages. i loved how there was a book within this book and, through it, the read ...more

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Feb 02, 2020 Elizabeth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, historical, young-adult, coming-of-age

I can't remember the last time I sobbed so much while reading a book or became so interested in the characters and their circumstances. (It may have been while reading Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay, come to think of it. I remember being just as swept away and desperate to read more.)

I adored everything about The Ten Thousand Doors of January: January herself, of course, her mother and father, Samuel and Jane and Bad. The writing is lyrical and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, but not in a showy way. Jan ...more

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Jan 25, 2023 Nanci rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, mystery, fantasy, literary, adventure, romance, turf-wars-great-lakes-2023

It seems as though most readers give this book either one star or five stars. I give 4 stars, but I can understand the feelings on both ends fo the spectrum. The writing is as beautiful as the cover. Very poetic with sentences that demand to be read a second and third time just to take them all the way in. This I loved about the book. The story itself was adventurous and even a bit enlightening, but it was hard work to get there. I agree with others that the reading was not always easy and I too ...more

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Mar 10, 2023 Heather Kimball rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, favorite-fantasy-reads

This book was one of the biggest surprises for me yet. I had really thought that this book was going to be one that I didn't end up finishing. (Classic case of judging a book by the cover) I was so wrong. This book was so immersive and creative. This brings me back to reading Station Eleven. I loved the inception of a story within a story. Everything about this book was just well done. ...more

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