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Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
What: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Who: Harvill Secker
When: November 5th
How: A copy of this novel was provided by Penguin Random House Australia for review.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book adj 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 verb 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 noun, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those
J.W. Ellenhall's Stories Read & Written /Reviews & My Series
I went into The Starless Sea as an observer & came out a super-fan, soaked in honey, golden paint, and memories of owls, keys, swords, and bees. That’s why this is a long and juicy post, so settle in!
Why this book is 🤯 & it’s incredible relevance today as an homage to legends.
Book summary without spoilers (but can anyone summarize infinity, really?)
Writing technique of Metaphorical-Seed Clues + my theories on that closure (WITH spoilers)
The Starless Sea is a story about stories. Literally. This transportive literary fantasy dives deep into the legendary “place” where all stories come from and shows how they’re sustained; how they transcend time, and how they change the worlds and people around them.
🖌️ It’s a work of satisfactory art in novel form, an art gallery wrapped between 2 covers. 🎨
The origin of stories has never mattered more than it matters today. We are currently in the midst of tremendous debates about the legal rights around the creation of books and all art forms. Mo
Art in Your World
The Starless Sea is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Eight years after Erin Morgenstern&#;s debut novel, The Night Circus—which also took the world by storm—and I would have happily waited over a decade for this masterpiece. If readers must wait year in and year out for works of this caliber, then readers shall rejoice in every single page that gets released.
The Starless Sea is a complex masterpiece. A delicate overlapping of characters and stories forming one advanced story on the idea of stories. A story focused on the abstracts of stories through multiple stories: fairytales, narratives, legends, and folklores. It is an absolute page-turner, especially for writers and avid readers to verb in. It&#;s a lot to consider, on what we think or what we are willing to accept, whether it&#;s in our lives, pens, or the books we&#;re sticking our noses in. Not willing to hand too much away for those of you that will happily pick-up this fantastical book, that is about all of the details I am willing to reveal.
Other than my support of two of the main charac
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world&#;a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
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 have childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to produce sense of how his possess 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 Fresh 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 overtake notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed muc