![]() ![]() Between the wonderful story of the Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire to the very interesting discussions in Lev Grossman’s Magicians series, I have been rejoicing the new approaches. Portal fantasy has had the best resurgence in recent years. I’m going to try my damn best here but this may ramble a wee bit. It takes a portal fantasy that is also in itself a discussion about the global effects of colonialism and the true power of words. ![]() ![]() There is very little that I can say about this book that hasn’t been said already. Each page reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.covers a story that might just be the key to unlocking the secrets of her past. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place.īut her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. ![]() I started this originally back in January (not intentional, it was a long bus journey) and it stuck with me since as a book that has beautiful writing but needs to be savored. I feel very late to the SFF party with this one. ‘Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy.’ ![]()
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