But once it does, hang on tight, because a lot happens! It’s not until she find a special book and learns of her father’s death that this story kicks into high gear. These snapshots of her childhood help us get to know her personality (largely stifled by Locke), understand her relationship with her dad (sadly distant), and see the clues building up over the years. The first couple of chapters provide plenty of buildup, from one day in Kentucky in 1901 through the next ten years of January’s life. The story takes a bit of time to get going. It may take a bit of getting used to, but in a good way: Ultimately, it’s highly immersive and mesmerizing. She has a particularly strong and unique voice. January narrates her story with plenty of flourish, often pausing to admire how a capital letter looks or to slip into a small but relevant memory. Reviewįrom the very first pages, The Ten Thousand Doors of January will strike you with its intricate, dreamy prose. Over the next several days - and with the help of her dog, her protector Jane, and her neighbor Samuel - January will overcome great obstacles to escape the villains after her, find her father, and discover the various hidden entryways to other worlds. But when she reveals her knowledge of these doors, January is suddenly in grave danger. In fact, it may hold the link between her mother, her father, and what’s gone on for her entire life. Two, that door she found in Kentucky 10 years before may have been real. One decade after accidentally stumbling across a door to another world, January learns two things in quick succession: One, her dad is missing, presumed dead. Locke often refers to her as “in-between.” But January longs for more: adventure, extra time with her absent father, a chance to feel free and rebellious. Not just because of her illusory life of wealth, either she’s also a woman of color with unclear, even mysterious roots.
Her mother is gone, and her dad is constantly traveling the globe for work - he’s employed by her guardian, in fact - and January often feels out of place. The Ten Thousand Doors of January follows 17-year-old January Scaller, a young woman living in a Vermont mansion with her wealthy guardian, Mr. What better month than January to read a novel whose titular character is named January? And it fits in my recent fixation on reading timely books, from One Day in December and Winterwood last month to the New Year’s settings of both The Hunting Party and This Time Next Year. Though it’s been on my shelf for a while now, this month felt like the perfect time to read it. It hadn’t been on my radar until Book of the Month included it as a selection that September, but the book instantly captured my attention. It was fall 2019 when I first heard about The Ten Thousand Doors of January, the debut novel by Alix E.
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