The Book of Doors set in New York City – Gareth Brown

Submitted: 15th January 2024

The Book of Doors – Gareth Brown

The Book of Doors set in New York City – Gareth Brown. If you haven’t read much fantasy (like me) and feel that it’s not for you ( like me) then I am here to prove you wrong. This book is set in a bookshop and reveals the story of a series of special books with powers. A bookshop seller is given a special book by a regular customer, but she is about to find out how special it is and who might want to kill her for it….

Map the locations in The Book of Doors

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Boarding Pass Information :

Destination : New York City, New Orleans, London, Scotland etc

Author guide: Gareth Brown

Genre: fantasy

Food and drink to accompany: nothing, this is about books, you will be too excited to eat

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A novel to transport you to a New York Bookshop

The Book of Doors set in New York City – Gareth Brown. Imagine working in a bookshop, someone giving you a book, only for you to find out it has special powers. Use this book to open doors to the past, doors to your past or to a place you visualise.

Map the locations in The Book of Doors

Cassie is that girl. Quiet and timid, she has a flatmate Izzy who is the total opposite. Cassie is given the book by a regular customer to the shop where she works. When the customer dies, it becomes a lasting memory but also a very precious cargo that Cassie has to look after. She soon realises that this book could hurt people, change the course of history and worse still, get people killed. Soon, there are people after her.

The world building is fantastic. The magic involved in the books and the Book of Doors is spellbinding. When the characters wander around New York, there are certain buildings I am going to look twice at now. Oh how I wish Kellner Books was real. Maybe it is and I need to find the book of Doors to enter…We go to New Orleans, a desert setting, London, France and a host of places in between but it’s New York in the winter that shines.

The cast of characters in this book is just wonderful, Drummond Fox for example, is a book protector who lives in a grand Scottish house with full library. This library is no ordinary library and so he’s taken some measures to hide it. The Woman is the name of the character looking for it and she will stop at nothing to achieve her goal.

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Map the locations in The Book of Doors

Cassie is able to travel back in time to meet her younger self. She finds herself trapped in the past however and we go on a magical, mystery tour of Cassie’s time before she is given the book that caused all the problems in the first place. This part of the book messed with my head but it’s so well crafted and the world so vividly constructed that I was believing every word within seconds.

I was a fantasy sceptic before reading this book. It helps that I can map it out since it’s set in very real places in New York, London and New Orleans to name but a few places. However, this world is so well explained and constructed that by the end I found it hard NOT to believe. The characters are spellbinding, the plot twisty and magical and the whole experience has made me sit back and go ‘wow’.

Fitting that a story about special powers about books has left me with a love and appreciation of the special powers of books.

All hail The Book of Doors set in New York City – Gareth Brown