Fetter was born and raised to be an assassin — specifically his scornful mother raised him to kill his father, who is the much-beloved head of a popular religious cult. Understandably, Fetter doesn't particularly want to do this, so when his mom sets him out on his own as a teenager, he wanders, eventually settling in a faraway city full of wanderers and impenetrable bureaucracy. While there, he manages to find a support group of other near-chosen ones from other religions, all of whom have abilities that are just beyond human (Fetter, for example, has no shadow and can float into the sky — really, he must work hard not to). Oh, and there are also the titular bright doors, which can be created out of any door that's closed in the city and draws Fetter to them like a moth to the flame. Through the support group, Fetter gets pulled into a revolutionary plot to disrupt the bureaucracy.
I'd heard so many wonderful things about this book (it won a Nebula Award and was nominated for a whole bunch of others), but I didn't really expect it to be this literary and dense. I liked the idea of it, and I LOVED the way it wrapped up, but I wish it was a little easier to wade through, a sentiment shared by many of those who discussed it in Orcs & Aliens last week.
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