I wanted to give this book five stars, truly I did, but I was left a touch too unsatisfied with certain storylines at the end (I’m looking at you, Eleanor and Simon).
Erin Morgenstern is an impressive writer, and she mimicked the writing style of her first book, The Night Circus, heavily in The Starless Sea—a fact I enjoyed immensely. Erin layers times lines and forces her readers to pay attention to detail. Unfortunately, this reader found herself lost on a few points.
Overall, The Starless Sea was a phenomenal book. I adored Fate & Time’s love story and am determined to memorize it to recite at parties #sorrynotsorry The only parts to leave me truly wanting were the beginning, which was a touch slow, and the end, which was too fast for my taste. See my snapshot review of The Starless Sea below!
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth.
What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction.
Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.
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Rebecca