The Book of Doors - Gareth Brown


Thanks to NetGalley and publisher for this arc

The Book of Doors is the kind of book that leaves you in a haze days after finishing it. I couldn't stop thinking of the story and the characters, and the next books I read really paled in comparison. 

The Book of Doors follows Cassie, a bookseller who receives  a little notebook from a customer. She soon will discover that this notebook is actually the book of doors, a book that transforms any door in another door, allowing her to travel anywhere she wants. But she will also find out that she is now in grave danger (as is the world).

I loved everything about this book. The idea of the books was really fun (well, not all of them), the characters were real to me, the friendship between Cassie and Izzy so beautiful and strong, the grief so heartbreaking and everlasting, the baddies so terrifying... Here comes a spoiler: I was surprised to see time travel and was a little worried of how it would be exploited, but I actually found it very well done and easy to understand. Cassie did exactly what I would have done, and it made me cry so much in a train full of people, but I just couldn't stop myself.  This book made me feel all the feels, all the hard ones and the good ones. It also has some gorish elements that made me almost sick.

I am so glad to have read this book, it's become a new favourite and I already want to reread it.

Rep: sc from asian descent
TW: blood, (gory) death, sexism, torture, grief


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