Rose-Anne

Charming little book about the importance of human connection, kindness, empathy. Often, we are stubborn about letting others know we don't have it all together. Does anyone ever truly have it all together though? In my experience, once you open up even a little, it's surprising how compassionate and helpful fellow humans become. This book is about that.

A few of the scenarios might be a bit unrealistic, but that's okay in a book like this. I encourage you to read it and be inspired to either reach out to, or check in on, your fellow human beings just a little more often. We should be there for each other.

Wow. This is not my normal kind of book but I read it for a challenge. I guess that proves the worth of participating in a challenge or two, because otherwise, I would have missed out on this. It was a really enthralling, well written story and I loved it. 

I only docked it a quarter of a star because there several words I didn't understand and Kobo dictionary was no help so a glossary would have been awesome. 

The Ten Thousand Doors of January is a marvelous story. If you loved the Narnia series, I'm willing to bet you'll love this book as well. 

One of the ways I can really tell I'm enjoying a book is when I can't stop thinking about it as I go about all the rest of my life.  This one had me, for sure, and I was always eager to get back to it and only grudgingly put it down when I really had to. 

I highly recommend you give this one a try. I don't think you'll regret it. 

Interesting book, definitely worth the read. 

The part of me that is full of curiosity about how everyone else lives in all their different parts of the world loved all the information about Cuba and what it was like to live there in the past and now. 

The part of me that loathes romance, and especially instant romance, gagged a lot. I know that's my issue though. 

The story was definitely interesting enough that I never considered DNFing it, and I appreciated the writing style that was easy to read. The author made it very easy to always know which timeline you were in, which is always good in a book that spans different eras. 

By all means, read Brandon Sanderson...just not this one.

The story had a clever plot, but the language used was painful. I know it was meant to represent an over the top version of the 1920s but it was just too over the top. Maybe it was fun to write that way, but it's less fun to read. Even intentionally done, the misogyny is just excruciatingly cringy in 2026.

I do know this was a novella he wrote very, very early in his career. Thank goodness he got so much better at it.