She almost gets you to believe in Doors the way you believe in the inevitability of Mondays.

She succeeds in making you feel the raw ache, the earnestness, and the desperation in her characters acutely.

She transforms the story into something that’s not just read, but experienced. January is the kind of heroine you’d follow through ten thousand Doors into worlds unseen before, no questions asked. Her dry humour is absolutely endearing and keeps you connected to her story. As January herself would tell you, “There’s only one way to run from your own story, and that’s to sneak into someone else’s.” January is one of the most iron-willed protagonists you’ll ever meet!Īlong with being persistently dauntless in her quest, she is also a witty and fairly sarcastic story teller. Sometimes the world gets too much to handle, and you need to dive into a story like January’s and wander into worlds vastly different from your own to forget all the troubles of human existence, at least for a few blissful hours. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a historical fiction novel steeped in magic and elements of fantasy fiction, and will definitely appeal to you if you’re a lover of either of those genres or are just looking for an utterly enchanting story. If you haven’t gotten around to this book yet or if you just need a reason to pick this up next, here are six reasons that might convince you to do so: A delicious crossover of genres! Then one day she finds a strange book and finally her existence as an in-between sort of thing starts making a lot more sense.

January tries her best to be the well mannered, docile girl Locke wants, and perhaps even loves a little.Īfter years of existing unnoticed, waiting for a father who’s never kept his promises of taking her along with him, January longs for freedom from the growing sense of imprisonment. When seven-year-old January tells Locke about the Door she found in the middle of an overgrown field, a door that leads to another world, he admonishes her and promptly sets about ridding her of her wild, fanciful streak. Her mother is dead, and her father travels around the world chasing rare objects for Mr Locke’s collection. In Mr Locke’s mansion filled with mysterious, otherworldly treasures, January Scaller feels like one of the wonders on display herself. The Ten Thousand Doors of January has the potential to become one of those books for you. Once in a while you stumble upon a book that you could fall into only if you believed hard enough. You feel a constant need to stroke the spine lovingly, you ache to read it again, and again, and again. Once in a while you stumble upon a book that gives you an undeniable sense of familiarity, of belonging.

The 10000 doors of january review