The only character who I really liked was Sunspark, a fire elemental that shows up on Herewiss’s journey to rescue Freelorn. Unfortunately for a character based novel, I didn’t have much engagement with the characters. The pacing at the beginning is also rather slow, and it took me a while to get any degree of involvement in the book at all. Now that X is done with, it’s time to move to plot point Y. The plot felt lackluster, and I at times felt like the narrative was just moving from set piece to set piece. The focus of The Door Into Fire was on the characters. You can see seeds of the writer that she’ll become – the themes of the importance of life and fighting against entropy are still in her works – but The Door Into Fire is so much less polished than her other works. I’m a big fan of Diane Duane’s Young Wizard series, so I decided to finally getting around to checking out her debut novel. And perhaps along the way, Herewiss will finally learn to unlock his magic. Freelorn is trapped and needs Herewiss to rescue him. But while he’s struggling to try and forge a sword capable of bearing his power, he receives an urgent summons from his lover Freelorn, a usurped prince trying to gather an army to retake his country.
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