I read this at the peak of the C-word lockdown and it was such a joy to escape over and over again with January.ġ0,000 doors is written as a book within a book, a favourite format of mine. Of course I know I cannot will a door into existence that could take me to another world -but the real world settings are described with as much wonder as the fictional. The 10,000 Doors Of January might just be the most endearing book I’ve ever read.Ī beautifully written heart rending journey across worlds to reunite both parents and child. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Stories inside stories offer the chance to dance around various character voices, and the cast comes across as real and lifelike after only a little period of time spent getting to know them.In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. The prose is clear, insightful, funny, and approachable. Within the opening few pages of the story, Harrow’s talent for writing sentences is readily apparent. And then a book enters her life that could end up being the turning point. As January’s youth draws to a close, she reflects on her earlier carefree years and wonders if she’ll ever be able to recover that sense of freedom and wanderlust. January Scaller, a young ward of an unfathomably wealthy benefactor, travels the world with him as her father serves as his employee. The novel takes place at the beginning of the 20th century. I’ll give a brief summary of the plot the less information you know going in, the better. It is an exquisitely written and painstakingly built journey about the power of love, the value of stories, and the enduring influence of words. The 10,000 Doors of January by Alix Harrow, a brilliant and enduring debut novel, beautifully and vividly depicts this experience of discovering oneself via the stories we exchange. Instead, they were first made known to me through books and stories when I was a young child, and they have remained with me ever since. Although I haven’t read a lot of portal fantasy, I’ve always had a sense of suffocated repression that has stifled my desire to explore. There are enough similarities that can be found that it nearly seems as though the book were written with your existence in mind.
It is uncommon to identify with a novel character in a way that causes similar circumstances in your own lives to elicit empathy.
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