A beautifully written, enchanting and quirky book. It is a love story, an adventure and so much more. The characters are wonderful, especially the heroine, January Scaller. The conversational tone of the narrator's writing draws the reader in and befriends her instantly.
There is so much going on in this book besides the main plot line. There are multiple worlds, the telling of stories and the collecting of curiosities. The beautiful metaphorical use of Doors is so well done. The book is about the power of words, writing, possibilities, open-mindedness and living your own life.
I loved it. I read it quickly, unable to leave it alone, and now having finished it, I want to read it again, slowly, to savour all the nuances.
Book clubs will love this book, there is so much to discuss.

En fantasía, el tropo de las puertas mágicas está bastante extendido: leones y armarios, conejos y reinas malvadas; cualquier cosa puede salir por una de esas Puertas. Un ejemplo reciente y conocido es el de la saga The Wayward Children, de Seanan McGuire, en la que les niñes con suerte encuentran puertas mágicas hacia sus mundos ideales, donde serán felices para siempre… hasta que el mundo los expulse. Aunque he leído a McGuire y adoro esas novelas cortas, ha sido con The Ten Thousand Doors of January, de Alix E. Harrow, cuando me he enamorado completamente de las puertas mágicas.

La protagonista de esta novela es January, a quien vemos crecer a lo largo de las primeras páginas. January vive con el señor Locke, un rico de Nueva Inglaterra que ejerce como una especie de padre suplente. Locke, en realidad, no le ofrece demasiado cariño paterno, solo disciplina amistosa y todos los libros que una niña pueda desear. El padre biológico de January recorre el mundo mientras tanto buscando reliquias incalculables para el señor Locke. La madre de January murió cuando ella era pequeña.

Sin embargo, como suele ocurrir, nada es lo que parece.

La vida de January cambia drásticamente cuando un día encuentra en un baúl misterioso un libro titulado The Ten Thousand Doors. En él, el autor narra la vida de Adelaide Lee Larson, una muchacha que se pasó media vida buscando y encontrando las Puertas mágicas que hay por toda la faz de la Tierra. Puertas como la que encontró January un día cuando era pequeña. Puertas de mar, sangre y marfil.

La búsqueda de Adelaide se convertirá en la búsqueda de January. Será, en última instancia, la búsqueda de la libertad, el amor y los orígenes de nuestra protagonista.

I have to be honest and say I wasn't sure about this one when I started, it took a while to get going but I was intrigued enough to stick with and I am so glad I did.
The characterisation is good and the story unfolds with just enough pace to keep you interested, it is well written and the author draws you into a magical and mysterious world that at times you are loathe to leave.

January Scaller has always felt out of place.  She tries her hardest to be the quiet, well mannered girl her guardian wants her to be, but she feels like she is nothing more than another curiosity amongst the eccentric Mr Locke's vast collection.  When January finds a book hidden in an old chest she soon becomes absorbed in the story, an epic adventure telling of secret doors, of love and danger.  As she reads more the story becomes further entangled with her own, and January begins to realise some impossible truths about the world.

This is the second book I've read recently that tells a tale of secret doors into mysterious worlds.  Although they share a similar magic and both celebrate the importance of stories and storytelling, they are vastly different books, and both immensely enjoyable in their own way.

If I'm being totally honest this one was a bit of a slow start for me, but once I got into it I really enjoyed it.  The first couple of chapters introduce us to January and give us the backstory to set up the main part of the book. Much as I say it was a slow start it was necessary to explain January's story and give us an understanding of her life so far.

For me things begin to get really interesting when January finds a book (The Ten Thousand Doors) and for a time we have a book within a book.  I really enjoyed each section of that book within the book, and the story of January herself really started to take off at this point too.

I liked January as a character.  She was stubborn and resilient, and I liked how she battled with herself between being wilful and adventurous or being well mannered and reserved and pleasing Mr Locke. 

The story unfolds well.  We learn gradually about January's family history, and also about the various doors between our world and other worlds.  We only really experienced one of the other worlds in any detail, and that was the world of wordworkers, where Yule Ian comes from.  I loved the idea of words having so much power, and would have liked to read more about how things worked in that world.
That's the only negative I really have for this book to be honest, I would have liked to spend more time learning about the other worlds, or reading about the following of stories to find the doors.

Overall I enjoyed reading this, and definitely recommend it to anyone who likes books with adventures and other worlds.

Thanks to NetGalley, Little Brown Book Group UK and Orbit for an arc in exchange for an honest review

Thanks to NetGalley for an early copy of this book for review.

The simplest thing I can say about this book is I knew it would become one of my favourites within a few pages.
The prose immediately drew me in and I fell in love so quickly. Ask Sam, who I was with when I started it - I just couldn’t stop reading it aloud. Harrow’s writing style is beautiful. It’s enchanting, magical and lyrical, but never like she’s trying too hard. It resonated with me so quickly and the copy on my kindle is filled with so many highlights. The writing just fit the book.
I also think I’m a sucker for a book about stories and this book had stories aplenty. Stories are a central part of the book. It’s all about how ten thousand doors lead to ten thousand worlds, each with ten thousand stories to tell. It just. Ahh. Makes my little bookwormish heart happy. Especially because it’s not just about stories but about how stories are important, how they can change the world. It’s just. *hugs book to chest*
This isn’t a book filled with action, so don’t look here if you want battle scenes at every turn of the page, but there’s always something happening. There’s always something that encourages you to turn the page. I mean, look at me - I was at 50% at midnight and I somehow finished it today, even though I wasn’t only reading.
Another thing Harrow does really well in this book is write good characters. I loved January: her love of stories, her quiet determination and her undoubting trust. Although this trust was sometimes her downfall (see other well written characters you just couldn’t tell if they were good or bad), it made for another strong part of the book. Family and friendship are a vital part of January’s story, and the two often merge into one.
One final thing that I won’t go into detail here because there’s just *so much* to say on this topic, but Harrow touches on a lot of quite dark subjects. There’s being coloured or “in between” in America in the early 20th century, but also being a woman in a world where one false step could get you labelled “hysterical” or “mad” and carted off to an asylum. She handles them so well and they’re so interesting to read about.

I want to write, and so you will see, a more coherent, better organised review for this. It will feature all the things I know I missed in this review, but it’ll also cover these things better. Keep your eyes open for it in a couple of weeks time.
Until then, go buy this book.
Because I will. And I’ll be using it to write my own story.

Thank you to netgalley.co.uk for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review.

I was happy to receive this book as the description sounded so good and I'm pleased to say I was not let down. I thought this was brilliantly written, the author has a real skill and I look forward to seeing more. I was hooked into this book from the first chapter. I loved the main character and her name, January. I don't think I have ever read a book like this, I felt like I could picture everything in my mind. I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking for an escape. You will certainly get one this with this.

Thank you NetGalley and Orbit books for a copy of The Ten Thousand doors of January. I heard good things about this book, so I was so happy I was accepted for a copy.
Set in 1901, January Scaller is the ward of Mr H Locke an archaeologist, in a mansion full of artefacts. While her father scours the world looking for more. Although she cares for Mr Locke, she is quite frightened of him and she thinks that he cares for her. But she is ignored by him whilst he goes on his day to day duties and the parties he holds at the mansion. January with her cedar colour skin, thinks that she doesn’t fit in the world.
One day, January stumbles over a book that has been left by her father. About doors which are portals to other worlds. Worlds of magic and legends. But when Mr Locke hears about this her life then changes. Her father is assumed missing feared dead and Mr Locke’s attitude changes towards her.
This is a beautifully written, magical mystical story that everyone will love. I loved everything about this, the story, the characters and such a beautiful cover. I just wanted to keep on reading and now that I finished reading it. I feel a bit lost. If, there is any productions teams out there, this would make a great film. 5 stars from me.

This book snuck up on me. Reminiscent of all the good things about The Golden Compass and The Binding I was transported through a literary door into a rich magical world.
It’s extremely well written and even at first when there is only a glimpse of what is to come it drew me in.
I fell in love with the idea of doors, the idea of other worlds that help us change and progress.
The characters too were engaging, strong and fundamentally human. Each had flaws but were still likeable. I loved the fact that the women were kickass, capable of saving themselves and going on adventures.
I am trilled I got to read this book early, it’s more than I ever expected it to be. It exceeded my expectations and I am sad I have finished it.
The storytelling was suburb.

I really do not know how to rate or review this book. This has taken me over a month to read which is unheard of. For at least the first 50% I could have put this down and never picked it up again. The whole thing seemed really disjointed and i could not get into it. Going backwards and forwards between January's story and her fathers book was off-putting and really took me completely out of the story. Although i pushed forward and the last 20% had me intrigued and was enjoyable i cannot give this a high rating.

I felt no connection to January and her character rubbed me up the wrong way from the start. It was not until the end that this changed.

If rated by me the first half was a DNF the second half would be a 3.5 possible 4 for the ending. As a whole i am going for 2.5 but will round up to 3.

I really wanted to love this and i am sad that this was not the case. I am unsure if this is a me problem though as i can see early reviews are good so perhaps this is just not for me.

This was a little tricky to review as I alternated from open mouthed adoration for the beautiful writing to getting bored and starting skipping.
There’s no doubt that the author can write - some parts are stunning, moving, poetic, profound, funny and meaningful.
But it is also an exhausting read, the main character is often over-analysing and over-commenting on the events, and painfully slow to get started. I liked the two converging time lines and the world building, I just wish it wasn’t quite so clever all the time and a bit more fun.
With a little tighter editing, especially in the first third, this would have been an absolute stunner of a book - it is still highly original, quirky, fresh, magical and largely well written, but I feel there’s a shorter and more entertaining book hidden within.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing and eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.


I am not going to explain the plot of this book in my review, because I believe stories like this one need to be approached with little to no knowledge about what happens in them. Only then are they really enjoyable.

I am going to give you a few buzzwords, for a lack of a better word, to make you interested, though, because I believe you should be interested and pick up this book.

The Ten Thousand Doors of January has:

- approachable magic - I think even if you're not a fan of magic or find it hard to understand some magic systems, this one is quite simple. Simple is definitely a compliment in this scenario; simple, as in easy to follow, but not lacking richness.
- multidimensional characters - there are layers upon layers to every single character, especially the main character, January. And POC representation. And don't get me started on all the relationships in it!
- whimsical atmosphere - it is not a spoiler, because it's in the title... there are Doors that lead to different worlds. (Shoutout to all of you Wayward Children series fans - here's something for you)
- beautiful writing!

It would've nearly gotten 5 stars from me if I wasn't so confused at the start, which I blame on myself more than I blame it on the book.

I loved the dynamic and pacing of this book. It was full of action, and only the very start of it was somewhat slow, but I understand it was done to set up the story. January is a great heroine to read from. I enjoyed her point of view. The struggles she encounters on a daily basis as a POC in early 1900s were described in what I thought was an authentic way (although I can't now that, being white myself).

I would recommend this book to fans of Seanan McGuire and Laini Taylor, or just people who enjoy good books! And to pretty cover enthusiasts.
4.5/5 stars

I love this story. It is what every child holds deep in their imagination. What every inner child sat inside an adult screams for. Imagine doors, just random doors in the middle of nowhere, somewhere and even here. Doors that lead to other places, countries and people. Doors driven by the invisible magic in the world, but only visible to a few.

There’s a moment in the story when Harrow balances the readers on the precipice of whether what January is experiencing is real or fiction. A fictional narrative drummed up by the trauma of grief and the pain of neglect. A young girl who has had episodes of delusions over the years or is that what Locke would have us believe.

It all seems too far-fetched to be true. Doors in the middle of fields that lead to other places. A book that tells the story of a young girl who happens upon the opening of a door at the right time and then spends years trying to reestablish a connection made within moments. Moments that haunt her and set her on an incredible path to discover the truth.

This book has incredible depth and beauty. It’s the kind of story that inspires both the young and old, and creates readers. It allows readers to step further than they believed – one page at a time. Magic of old and blood magic of new.

It’s YA fantasy, but I would recommend it for younger readers too. Fantasy melded with historical fiction with an essence of literary fiction.

This is a lovely story, it’s about love, deep enduring love, both parental and between two humans, it’s about greed and selfishness, and it’s about keeping going when all the odds are against you. Oh, and a little bit of magic?

I enjoyed this, it would be a good holiday read.

My thanks to Netgalley and Orbit Books

This was one of my most anticipated novels of 2019 and I practically jumped for joy when my ARC request got accepted on Netgalley.

Wow. This was not what I was expecting. It started off perfectly well, the writing style actually blew me away. Harrow has a beautiful way of writing that flows so well and really drew me in, in the beginning.

So we meet January as a child and she discovers a magical door into a new world. Great! I'm thinking this is just the start, she doesn't stay in the world for more than about 30 seconds but then we start to read about her adolescent years and I am assuming that first door was just the start!
How wrong I was. January finds a book about magical doors and we spend the next 6 chapters learning about someone else, that she doesn't know, going through doors whilst we slowly follow her everyday life. I kept thinking to myself eventually the book within the book and Januarys story will join up, which they kind of do? But not in any amazing or interesting sense. I DNF at 48% after reading some similar reviews and I realised there was no major point to this story.
There is no excuse for being half way through book and the main point hasn't even been hinted at yet????!!

I'm going to give this 3 stars because the writing style is possibly the most beautiful I have read in a long time, but it also has no actual plot so yeah....

TW/CW : racism, self harm (in order to do magic), animal cruelty, bad parenting, a lot of colonialism,

Probably 2.5 / 5 stars

There's a few tropes I hate in this book, so it really didn't help :
- A story within a story
- Instalove (even instaTrueLove lol, help) - though thank god it's only a side plot in the story
- The villain monologue explaining everything at the end

Also, it's not a trope but it had hints of fabulism (/Magical realism) and I really dislike fabulism, it's just not for me.

Short version : you might like this book if you enjoy the writing until the very end, unlike me. If you like it, then you will probably be carried away with the story and really enjoy it. If it annoys you like it did me then you'll probably just look at it from the sidelines and see everything that is wrong with it, all the little inconsistencies and annoying bits.

First, a word on colonialism
The book opens with a couple of colonialist (and racist) comments about other countries to make us understand what year this is. So this is the summer of 1901 yada yada yada and then it goes :

Those unruly Boxers had been subdued in China and Cuba had been tucked neatly beneath America's civilized wing


A lot of people just see this as sarcasm and so it's fine. I guess it's supposed to be but there's nothing on page that shows explicitly that it's sarcasm and this is like page 2 and unless you follow the author and stuff and know that she can't possibly think those lines then how would you know ? Also, even if everyone gets that this is sarcasm (I didn't really) it's basically the same as doing a racist joke, just because it's among people who are "not racist" (how would you know none of your readers will be racists though) then it's ok to say literally the same thing as racists do.
Guess what ? It's not okay.

There's also 2 instance of talking about a human zoo in London, without any criticism of it. The first time, a character just says that London in general is a human zoo, another time the MC sees a bunch of different people (black, brown, white, asian etc) who look a little ragged and compares them in her head to the London human zoo.

I was left quite unconformable with those different comments that never got challenged. And yes, the rest of the story is about rich white men in the US/Europe stealing art and cultural objects from other countries and yes that got challenged but it's just not the same thing and the racism/colonialism should also have clear comments against them imo.

The writing

It was... a lot. A lot of metaphors and similes. Especially TONS of similes and some of them were WILD.

See the unfurled curve of that [letter] J, like a rope dangling out of a prison window ?

There were a lot of sentences like that around capitalized first letters and let me tell you it got very old very quickly.

He shriveled like something left on a windowsill too long


The house smelled of goats on warm afternoons


lol, so it stunk. But like, do goats really have different smells during the day though ?

[the boat] smells of sunsets on strange horizons, of nameless constellations and spinning compass needles and the forgotten borderlands at the edge of the world

or MAYBE you shouldn't have used the word "smell" because this is just ridiculous. Maybe it "felt" like this but it definitely didn't "smell" like it. (I just have something in general against the "writing trope" of saying ridiculous stuff about things and especially people smells. No, this guy didn't smell like grass after the rain and your mother's food, come on)

Also I get that putting adjectives everywhere is FUN but they should at least make sense :

into the lazy sunlight of a summer afternoon

Well, in a summer afternoon the sunlight is usually everything but lazy ? Like, it's the hottest time of the day and of the year. I do not understand what this is supposed to mean.


Am I nitpicking on some of those ? Maybe. A lot of you will read them and actually think this is a beautiful writing and now you want to read this book and it's fine, you do you ! At first I was into it too, but now that I've read 380 pages of it ? not so much. I mostly think the author is trying too hard and that it should have all been edited a ton. To make a simile : it's like candies, at first you really like them but if you eat an entire box it in one go then you just get nauseous.


The Characters
We mostly get to know January but I never got attached to her in any way, I think the writing has something to do with it, I like the idea of her but I don't really care and won't remember about her in a couple of days. Also, during the second half of the book she does the DUMBEST THINGS. It was truly mesmerizing to see the stupid stuff she pulled. I can't tell you what exactly as it would be spoilery of course but let me tell you : HOW DUMB CAN YOU GET JANUARY ?? It's basically all about going to dangerous places alone when you could have backup, deciding their fates for other people without letting them the chance to have a say, basically spelling out where you're going to a bad guy because you think you're smart when sometimes YOU'RE REALLY NOT...

Also, as I said in the trigger warnings be careful if you're triggered by this because she self-mutilate in order to do magic at one point. But it's completely dumb too because in my opinion she could have just written on the wall, she didn't need to write ON HERSELF. But that's just more dramatic I guess...

Everyone in January's family is also very selfish and self-centered and it got on my nerve. There's a few things that also happen after the midway point that made me really dislike her dad especially..But again, I can't explain more because spoilers.

There was in this story a lot of importance given to LOVE, not as in the love story being an important part, because it wasn't, but there was a lot of quotes about love and TRUE LOVE and how love enable you do do things, and also how you need someone with you in your life to be happy and it also got on my nerves. Like this quote :

Freedom isn't worth a solitary shit if it isn't shared


and yeah in the context it does mean shared as in as a couple and ew, I'll be alone and free if I want to, thank you very much.

I think my favorite character was Jane, but really she was under-used and was treated like shit. First, the "deal" she made with January's father was shit and we could have got so much more of her, it makes me sad. And then there's something that is linked to January's magic, and I'll talk about that bellow.

The Magic system
I hate fabulism because I need stuff to be explained and if that's not entirely fabulism it's still too close to it. We don't know why January can do what she does, when asked to do something (by Jane) she will say that she can't, like if she KNEW the limits of her powers when... ? As far as we know, she doesn't. So she just refuses to help Jane, but then later when she needs to do what Jane asked her for HERSELF she does it without thinking and wow look, it actually worked ! That just goes with the whole "those characters are selfish" thing I talked about earlier. They will just do things for their own gain. She could have at least tried doing the thing for Jane but she just flat out said no.
And aside from that thing with Jane, I personally need more in my magic system, but that's a personal thing. I don't link magic that just happen to work one way or the other when it seems to fit the plot.

One last thing before I wrap this up : would a poor black woman from Kenya, a grocery boy and a young lady know how to swim in the freaking Atlantic ocean in 1910 ? (The answer should be no, or at least they should have difficulties, but hey, that's inconvenient to the plot I guess).

So anyway I get why this is loved (so far, as it's not out yet, but it's really loved by people who got ARCs) if you like the writing and don't ever get tired of it (I couldn't stand it anymore by 50%) then you might not notice all the little inconsistencies and stupidities that I did. By the 30% mark I wanted to DNF this but decided to stick to it (I probably shouldn't have) but then I noticed a lot of little things that you probably don't notice when you are enthralled by a story. It all really depend on your reading tastes because except for the little things on colonization that I was uncomfortable about there's nothing actually bad with this story, and this is why I'm still giving it a 3 with the star system (that doesn't accept half stars), even though for me it's not more than a 2.5

I absolutely adored this beautiful new book.

You know when you read a book then struggle to find the words to do it justice in a review? When you finish a book feeling bereft that its over and all you really want to do is hug the Author and say a heartfelt Thank You.

Well, this is one such novel. I am one VERY fortunate person to have early access to this book and as such, I feel like a privileged explorer who has visited a world where few people have ever trodden.

From page one, I was spellbound with this wonderful debut novel, rapt in the story and utterly invested in the main character, January. The book is possibly best described as a young adult/ coming of age fantasy for ALL ages (I'm 63 and loved it) and as soon as I started it, I slipped into a world where Doors to other worlds exist. The storytelling is so convincing it had me looking behind every tree and at every old building with new eyes just in case it was hiding a Door (with a capital D)

Set around the turn of the century, in a world which is our world but with a few idiosyncrasies which include a touch of magic and a lot of legends. The first third of the book really just sets the scene, we get to know January, who at first is a little girl and we watch her grow up as we share her life. It is a sheltered and pretty strange life. She lives with her Guardian, William Locke in a large and rambling old Mansion filled with his collection of dubiously acquired, antiquities and curiosities, of which January herself feels like she is one, kept hidden away and only taken out on occasion to be observed and stared at. She doesn't quite fit into stuffy 1900's Vermont, where little girls, she is told, should be seen and not heard, obedient and unquestioning and to be acceptable in polite society, they should also, like her guardian, be white. Yes, racism is rife in the good ole' US of A in the early 1900s and Januarys skin, like her dear Papa's is darker than most. Not that she meets many people to compare. She is a lonely little girl. Her beloved father is away on his travels, off around the world tracking down and gathering artefacts for Mr Locke's collection whilst he leaves his daughter to be cared for by the obsessive Mr Locke, who is the Chairman of the enigmatic Archaeological society.

Her childhood companions are a strict nanny, whom she despises and infrequent but longed for interludes of companionship and surreptitious games with her one true friend, Samuel Zappia a merchants boy who delivers goods to the house and befriends her. He is to provide the one thing which sustains January throughout her solitary childhood, the surprise gift of a dog, who she names Sinbad, abbreviated to Bad, who comes to be her devoted and most loyal companion.

As she grows older Mr Locke occasionally allows her to accompany him on an occasional "business" trip, these are exciting events for a youngster, whos only adventures so far have been in the books she loves to read and she grabs every chance to escape and explore.

On one such trip, to Kentucky, she catches a glimpse of something which she can't really understand, a fleeting glimpse of another world which holds the promise of adventure and spawns a longing in her, to escape, to discover and to travel.

One day a breath of fresh air enters her life in the form of an unusual new nanny sent by her father to protect January and into the stuffy mansion comes Jane, bringing with her a whiff of her native Amazonian jungle and a brusque form of affection and around the same time January begins to read a new book entitled The Ten Thousand Doors, a handwritten and lengthy journal a love story and adventure about two people Adelaide (Ade) and Julian (Yule Ian), which is about to completely change her life.

It is in the remaining 2/3 of our book where the story gathers pace, we begin to realise the enormity of January's discoveries and to journey with her into strange and wonderous places as she sets out to uncover the truth of her own past, build her own future and break apart the myths and mysteries of the enigmatic couple in her book as she works out whether the ten thousand doors contained within the pages are much more real than any fiction she has read.

This is when everything becomes satisfyingly complex, spellbindingly mysterious and evolves into a gripping adventure, which created in me the deep inner joy which I used to feel when I read magical books when I was a child.

Evocative and mesmerising, this fable is threaded with possibilities and woven with a magical lyrical astuteness which I feel is going to earn it a place alongside such timeless classics as His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (and January is most definitely a heroine to equal Lyra), the Abhorsen books by Garth Nix and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, if you enjoyed any of these, I'm certain you will love The Ten Thousand doors of January.

It explores grief, loss, love, acceptance and prejudice and will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever felt they don't fit in. It is entrancing and emotional, I won't deny I shed a tear. Stunning.

A very strange yet engaging story. At first I didn't like the voice the story was set in but as I read on the young voice matured and I got used to it.
I very much enjoyed the mixed narrative and like the way the hook bounced from Adelades story to Yule Ians to Januarys. I also liked the hints of other stories such as Ink Heart and a few others I can recall.
I will definitely be recommending this book to others looking for a bit of an adventure.

I was utterly transfixed by this novel. The Ten Thousand Doors of January made me long to dive and live inside its pages. I loved everything about this novel and it reminded me of the stories I used to long for as a child.

There was great representation in this novel and I liked how persons of color were featured in this novel as realistic and also a main focus of the novel.. As a wonderful historical fiction novel set in a world filled with so many different worlds and Doors with possibility, the main character, January is a character I greatly enjoyed reading about with her upbringing with an almost foster-father and her experiences growing up.

This book is a true treasure of a novel, and its story of magic and wonder is one that will live on through the ages.

The ten thousand doors of January is a magical story that will be unlike anything you've ever read before.
An usual, historical, captivating tale of hidden doors, other worlds, secrets and fantasy. It gave me the escapism I love within its pages.
Perfect summer read.
5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for allowing me to read in return for an honest review.

I feel really sad as I had to dnf(didnotfinish) this book. I really wanted to love this book as I mean look at the cover it's Beautiful! But sadly I couldn't get into the story.
I'd recommend it to others as I'm sure it will be the perfect book for them but it's not my mind of story I don't think- maybe I will try and come back to it.

Thank you for allowing me to have the chance to try and read this .