However, if you were one to be ok with an open ending and this was the only book, just the story embedded was fun enough. This is a book series so there is more to look forward to for an explanation. There is no scene where the character thinks really hard or someone says something out there and the mystery unravels and everything is wrapped up. But the flow of the story is really good. Someone is found but I wasn’t quite sure how or a fight happens and people wind up hurt but I didn’t quite get how. I will say there are, at times, moments when a discovery is made or a character is found or an action is taking place where the story gets a little confusing over what exactly happened. From a podcast with the author, he had a similar story when he pitched the story to his wife. I read half a chapter to my wife at the quarter mark and she wanted me to finish the book so I could tell her what it was about. The boys act like boys and the sisters act like sisters and the awkward kid is enough to want to have him protected and be ok with a small fall down the stairs. Grounded in the sense that the characters feel real and the family elements are familiar. This was more in line with a grounded “ The Phantom Tollbooth“. Yes, an easy comparison to make would be to say it’s like Narnia in that there are portals to another world with fantasy elements but you could do the same with the book “ Contact“. Mystery, magic, secret codes, uncovering family secrets, a nothing town holding this big adventure – how can you not have a story worth reading from that? You stick any guy in that main character spot and you better believe you’d get a similar story like this. First, the premises is any boy of any age’s dream – there are some magic drawers hidden away in a secluded part of the house and magic comes from them – some good and some not so much. There are many things to like about “100 Cupboards”.
They are, in fact, portals to other worlds. Through another he sees a glowing room-with a man strolling back and forth! Henry and his cousin Henrietta soon understand that these are not just cupboards. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers doors-ninety-nine cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Two knobs have broken through the wall, and one of them is slowly turning… But the next night he wakes up with bits of plaster in his hair. It’s an unfamiliar house-Henry is staying with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins-so he tries to ignore it. Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head.
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