'The Book of Doors' by Gareth Brown

 The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown (3.5)

This book is a very imaginative debut novel with a unique take on time travel, which is quite hard to do. I was even surprised by a few parts of the dramatic ending – which I always appreciate! A young woman is gifted a strange book that allows her to travel through doors that she can imagine. She realizes there are other books with magical properties, but people looking for them to use them for bad purposes. She finds others who are trying to keep the books from the bad people. I would have given it 4 stars, if only the evil characters were not so one dimensional. Their actions and dialogue were almost laughable. Also, at times it seemed obvious that the author was a man as the young women in the book have some stereotypical hang-ups. The book is a 4 for plot and 2 for character/dialogue.