![]() ![]() Whilst a moment will be needed to wrap one’s head around the copious amounts of honey and mention of keys I can say that The Starless Sea was a pleasurable read and is the type of story to benefit from a second reading. The whimsy and magical mystery surrounding the characters be they schmoozing bourbon sippers, white haired gatekeepers or the occasional talking cat are the confusing yet enriching parts of Morgenstern’s tale. ![]() I can easily say that readers who enjoy knitting a story together and are fine with bumbles down seemingly incoherent paths will enjoy this story. If anything, at times I found The Starless Sea to have no clear definition in sight of what it wants to be, in part this works to the novel’s favour -magical mystery cannot exist in clear sight, however, the eventual resolution is one which left me slightly lost from what I can presume was the intended resolve. ![]() The primary location of The Starless Sea is a magical labyrinth which I found to flicker between wanting to be a library or gallery or crypt. Set primarily in an underground labyrinth (or interdimensional?) of no specific location, readers follow Zachary Ezra Rawlins as he attempts to piece together fragments and whispers of a story belonging to the starless sea. The much anticipated second novel by Erin Morgenstern The Starless Sea takes readers on a voyage through nameless doors and along endless halls. ‘ As long as there have been bees, there have been keepers.’ -Sweet Sorrows, There are three paths. ![]()
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