The Portable Door - Tom Holt

Paul Carpenter sits quietly at a job interview he knows he will not be getting, just like the countless others he has attended. Across from him sits a sour-faced girl equally convinced she will not be getting it. It is therefore, something of a surprise when he receives a letter asking him to start on Monday and even more of a surprise that the same sour-faced girl is also there on his arrival. All he has to find out now is what the company actually does, what the claw marks are on the back of the door and whether he and the sour-faced girl will live happily ever after. Tom Holt’s “The Portable Door” is my sort of book. Holt is an author I have avoided ...  Read the complete review

My husband almost ran up to me the other day in town ?I need £5? he said, puffing slightly. I knew he had been in WHsmith and I also new my hubby didn?t rush for anything so I handed over the money and watched him disappear into the distance. When I caught up with him I saw what had inspired him to such exercise excess and I must say I was slightly deflated. It was a book. A plain paperback, cream coloured bog standard book. Not just that it was a Tom Holt book. I read ?Falling Sideways? and loved it but any other attempt to read a Tom Holt title had ended up in me giving up after a few chapters with an annoying headache. However hubby was ...  Read the complete review

Okay well one incredibly annoying review I have read of this book stated that it was basically Harry Potter for adults. Well true as that might have been if Harry Potter was hilarious, inventive and fun this book is so much more than an attempt by Holt to cash in on the Potter success, The similarities begin and end in the realm of magic and that is it, The Portable Door stands out head and shoulders above it?s market rivals on terms of both humour and readability and is also an excellent introduction in the madcap fan-com world of Tom Holt and so now that mini rant is over I think I should start my review.. Hold onto your hats it's going to be a bumpy ride ;o) ...  Read the complete review