The Ten Thousand Doors of January

In this book Alix E Harrow has written a story about doors - the portals between two worlds that can sometimes appear in our world.

January Scaller lives in a large house in new England with her guardian, Mr Locke. As her father travels the world collecting artefacts for the Locke Collection, he is rarely at home. January lives in a world where she is not fully accepted and is used to not fitting wherever she goes. She wants to find her father when she learns that he is missing and also her mother who disappeared when January was very young.

January is normally left to her own devices at Mr Locke's house, so when she discovers a book alluding to other worlds she decides to explore. January soon discovers that she has special powers to locate and unlock doors, however as she looks for and discovers new doors an evil force closes them. She needs to learn who she can really trust as she searches for her parents.

The book begins slowly as the reader is introduced to tow stories but as the stories merge the book is difficult to put down.