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A review by pursuingcolor
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
5.0
I’ve never been more delighted to be confused.
This book felt like having a glass of wine on an empty stomach. It felt like being unexpectedly tipsy but enjoying it.
Just... ugh. wow.
My review of this book will not do it justice, I guarantee you. It was an experience I have never had before while reading and I encourage you to have yourself! I will say, I enjoyed this book more than I enjoyed Morgenstern's Night Circus. I liked that this book was enchanting, mysterious, unearthly-- but also they mentioned Starbucks and made Lord of the Rings and Skyrim references. This book absolutely itched my modern fantasy scratch like nothing else I've ever read. And honestly, I still don't entirely understand what happened in this story. And even more honestly, that made it an even greater experience.
Well done, Morgenstern.
Now for a good quote that I pulled from one of the final few sections:
"You asked for me, didn’t you? I can’t really be here since I’m not dead.”
“But you’re…shouldn’t you be able to be wherever you want?”
“Not really. I’m in a vessel. An immortal one this time, but still a vessel. Maybe I am whatever I was before again. Maybe I’m something new now. Maybe I’m just myself. I don’t know. As soon as there’s an unquestionable truth there’s no longer a myth.”
The Starless Sea (p. 469).
This book felt like having a glass of wine on an empty stomach. It felt like being unexpectedly tipsy but enjoying it.
Just... ugh. wow.
My review of this book will not do it justice, I guarantee you. It was an experience I have never had before while reading and I encourage you to have yourself! I will say, I enjoyed this book more than I enjoyed Morgenstern's Night Circus. I liked that this book was enchanting, mysterious, unearthly-- but also they mentioned Starbucks and made Lord of the Rings and Skyrim references. This book absolutely itched my modern fantasy scratch like nothing else I've ever read. And honestly, I still don't entirely understand what happened in this story. And even more honestly, that made it an even greater experience.
Well done, Morgenstern.
Now for a good quote that I pulled from one of the final few sections:
"You asked for me, didn’t you? I can’t really be here since I’m not dead.”
“But you’re…shouldn’t you be able to be wherever you want?”
“Not really. I’m in a vessel. An immortal one this time, but still a vessel. Maybe I am whatever I was before again. Maybe I’m something new now. Maybe I’m just myself. I don’t know. As soon as there’s an unquestionable truth there’s no longer a myth.”
The Starless Sea (p. 469).