A review by aligeorge
The Door That Led to Where by Sally Gardner

3.0

I love Sally Gardner so I picked this up with high expectations. I enjoyed it, but it felt a little bit unfinished somehow, like it could have done with another draft to smooth out the rough edges. It's an interesting story with some good characters, but with so many of them and two time periods involved there were points were it felt a bit convoluted. I felt like Leon and Slim's characterisation in the first half of the book could have been a bit more subtle, too - it was basically 'these are troubled kids' without any depth to them, which made the changes in their lives when they went through the door a bit less impressive than it might have been.