Ahh I have fallen so far behind. It’s been almost a month since I updated and I have several several reviews to write. So sorry! Okay but .. this book. Read it. As luck would have it, I was at first reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January virtually in tandem with The Starless Sea and both pretty quickly revolve around magic doors acting as portals to other worlds. Unfortunately this had me initially writing January off as a knock-off (I’ll get to it in that review, but Starless […]

In the early 1900s, January Scaller is a child living a lonely existence. The ward of wealthy Mr Locke, she has only books and a disinterested nursemaid for company. Her father works for Mr Locke and his archaeological society, travelling the world collecting artefacts and rarely coming home. At seven years old January discovers a Door, a crack between worlds, but before she can investigate further it is destroyed. She grows from being a wilful child to a young lady who knows when to keep […]