![]() ![]() ![]() For all this, the novel seems entirely new, including Harrow’s manner of telling the tale, as inventive in its own way as was Ten Thousand Doors. ![]() To be sure, the plot, the late 19th-century setting, and the characters are entirely different, but her sometimes playful fascination with history, her not entirely original conviction that outsider groups can gain power from unity, and her celebration of women’s magic will seem familiar. Much the same might be said of her new novel The Once and Future Witches. Harrow’s spectacular debut, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, was one of celebration – a celebration of portal fantasies, of secret histories, of favorite books and tales, most of all of the protagonists’ capacity to find and claim their own stories. Harrow ( Redhook 978-4-8, $28.00, 528pp, hc) October 2020.ĭespite its vampires, assassins, and a viciously conspiratorial patriarchy, the main sensibility I took away from Alix E. ![]()
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