The Ten Thousand Doors of January

 The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow, 399 pages.

I'm very late to the party here, but I finally read The Ten Thousand Doors of January, which the Orcs and Aliens book club read a couple of months ago (see Kara's review here). 

January Scaller has led a sheltered life with her caretaker, Mr. Locke, while her father travels the world searching for rare artifacts to house in Locke's mansion, and January herself is the rarest artifact of all. But stories begin with change, and when change comes to her life January has to challenge her role as a "good girl" and draw on the strength that has been locked away so long to do things she wouldn't have believed possible. 

I really, really liked this book. It's simultaneously a classic portal fantasy and a new twist on the genre. It's also a little meta, which I don't mind at all. Thematically it reminds me a lot of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern and Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, which are both favorites of mine. It's the sort of beautiful, sweeping book that makes my heart ache for impossible things, as well as a wonderful look at love in its many forms.