Doors and Unicorns

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown started off as a fun adventure story about a young woman who is given a book that turns 'any door into every door'. Whilst I was enjoying it to begin with, it did feel like there was a disconnect between the simplistic style and light tone versus the quite dark and violent content. But when time travel was introduced and two of the main characters started doing stupid things that seemed out of keeping with their presentation up to that point, I decided to stop reading after about 150 pages.


The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier has been on my TBR shelf for a long time and I finally got around to giving it a try. It's about an artist who is commissioned to create designs for a series of tapestries by his patron. But the initial viewpoint character was so repugnant, I could stand spending any more time in his head so I gave up on it very quickly.