Book: The Book of Doors

 Book: The Book of Doors

Author: Gareth Brown

Pages: 416

This is my 207th read for the year

Amazon says: (sorry I am super lazy lately - busy and reading a ton)

Cassie Andrews works in a NYC bookship, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary life.  Until the day one of her favorite customers - a lonely yet charming old man - dies right in front of her.  Cassie is devastated.  She always loved his stories, and now she has nothing to remember him by.  Nothingbu the last book he was reading.  The Book of Doors.  Inscribed with enigmatic words and mysterious drawing, it promises CAssie that any door is every door.  You just need to know how to open them.  Then she's approached by a gaunt stranger in a rumpled black suit with a Scottish brogue who calls himself Drummond Fox.  He's a librarian who keeps watch over a unique set of rare volumes.  The tome now in Cassie's possession is not the only book with great power, but it is the one most coveted by those who collect them.  Now Cassie is being hunted by those few who know of the Special Books.  With only her roomate Izzy to confide in, she has to decide if she will help the mysterious and haunted Drummond protect the Book of Doors - and the other books in his secret library's care - from those who will do evil.   Because only Drummon knows where the unique library is and only Cassie's book can get them there.  But there are those willing to kill to obtain those secrets.  And a dark force - in the form of a shadowy, sadistic woman - is at the very top of that list.

Great book.  Well written with good character development.  It is a neat concept - books that all do different magical things for the person who possesses them.  I knocked it a star because I think the evil characters were overdone - just too horrible.  Overall an interesting story full of mystery and fantasy.

Stars: 4