The Book of Doors

Gareth Brown

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book—an unus...usual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door. What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want. But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals—individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses. Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons—a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all... Because some doors should never be opened.
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  • Počet strán: 418 strán
  • ISBN13:9781787637245
  • Ďalšie vydania: Kniha dvier

Sumár recenzie
Kniha dvier (The Book of Doors) od Garetha Browna je román o Cassie Andrewsovej, ktorá dostane Knihu dvier — magický objekt, vďaka ktorému sa cez dvere dostane kamkoľvek a dokonca aj do minulosti. Medzi silné stránky recenzentka zaraďuje krásnu obálku, pôsobivú oriezku a originálny nápad s kúzelnými knihami, vrátane Drummonda Foxa a jeho tajnej knižnice. Naopak, knihe prekáža pomalšie tempo príbehu, nedostatočne prepracované a málo sympatické postavy a niektoré časové presuny pôsobia logicky slabšie. Recenzentka knihu hodnotí 4,5/5; odporúča ju pre milovníkov kníh pre jej originálny námet, pričom ako slovenskú alternatívu spomína Vôňa kávy a chuť absintu.

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book—an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door.

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals—individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons—a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all...

Because some doors should never be opened.