Open Sesame - Tom Holt

Well in my ongoing quest to understand the man behind the words I`ve just finished re-reading Open sesame and so I thought I may as well review the book while it was still fresh in my mind. As can be cunningly deduced from Holt's title, the baseline story is "Ali Baba" and like his earlier My Hero, it's a story about the power of Stories (with I`m afraid to say more than a little nod or two to Terry Pratchett's style of looking at things with his head permenantly tilted to the side). I think we are all familiar with the traditional telling of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" Heroic Ali Baba overhears the secret password, ...  Read the complete review

My last book review was not well received, I only got a useful. I suspect this was because I took great pains to avoid giving away the plot. As a result of this, I am now going to tell you a little bit about this story, this time around. Okay, are you sitting comfortably? Then we will begin. Once upon a time, there was this amazing storytale land, where all the worlds stories, old and new, existed. Unlike our world (to the best of my knowledge), this world had an unnerving habit of restartinbg the same old stories a nanosecond after they finished. This might never have been discovered had Akram the terrible (a character in the 'Ali Baba ...  Read the complete review