I LOVED this one!! I am a huge fan of the world-within-the-world concept, and this book offered that to the nth degree. Add to it a fabulous and wholly engaging storytelling style, marvelous characters you can’t help but love and connect with, and a plot that carries you along a winding, twisting river of machinations, secrets, and misdirection, and you wind up with a perfectly marvelous story that I couldn’t put down!
The concept of doors – excuse me, Doors – is not a new one, but in Harrow’s skillful hands the construct plays out brilliantly. There is a mystery underpinning the mystery, and the author teases out the parallel plot lines masterfully. January is a wonderful protagonist, offering just the right blend of sass and smarts, and her escapades are, for good and ill, full of wonderment and magic and devastating consequences.
“…destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.”
There are fantastic opportunities for future related stories and I for one hope like crazy that the author decides to go in that direction. If not, I will DEFINITELY be on the lookout for whatever she serves up next. Her writing is as refreshing as a cool drink from a mountain spring, and is just as satisfying!
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my review copy.
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