Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

"Doors are many things: fissures and cracks, ways between, mysteries and borders. But more than anything else, doors are change."

You know, I have a habit of picking up books without knowing the synopsis of the story, hoping I won't regret it. And this. I did not expect to enjoy this book so much ♥︎ Everything in this story is so believable that right after I finished it, I can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that this is fiction ☹︎ It's incredibly written and despite it being a fantasy novel, the entire storyline is extremely easy to follow.

In a nutshell, this story is about magical doors that lead to a different world. While I would like to continue and tell you more, I'm gonna stop here and encourage you to read the book instead. Because this is more than just magical doors.

Get the book here (affiliate link): The Ten Thousand Door of January

Favorite quotes:

“because what is written is what is true. Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy. Even my own writings—so damnably powerless—may have just enough power to reach the right person and to tell the right truth, and change the nature of things.”

“a person’s beginnings do not often herald their endings”

“doors are many things: fissures and cracks, ways between, mysteries and borders. But more than anything else, doors are change.”

“it isn’t pain or suffering that unmakes a person; it’s only time. Time, sitting on your breastbone like a black-scaled dragon, minutes clicking like claws across the floor, hours gliding past on sulfurous wings.”

“If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”

“words themselves have power.”

“the strength of a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel.”

“Believing is what matters. Willing.”

“sometimes pain is too unavoidable, too necessary to feel.”

“the place you are born isn’t necessarily the place you belong.”

“Maybe all powerful men are cowards at heart, because in their hearts they know power is temporary.”

“I was dangerous and he was a coward, and cowards don’t let dangerous things live in their spare bedrooms. Sometimes they don’t let them live at all.”