The Ten Thousand Doors of January

By Alix E. Harrow
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This book is beautiful! Perfect read! From the ‘almost’ end: “If you’re some stranger who stumbled over this book by chance- perhaps rotting in some foreign garbage pile or locked in a dusty traveling trunk or published by some small mis-guided press and shelved mistakenly under Fiction- I hope to every god you have the guts to do what needs doing. I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you were going through every open Door and tell stories when you return.”

The Ten Thousand Doors of January reminded me a bit of The Secret Garden at the first, and then morphed into the most amazing, adventurous, romantic novel that I have read for a long time. And there MUST be a sequel coming.

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