The Starless Sea

by Erin morgenstern

𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡,

𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚?

𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙨

𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩?

𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨?

SYNOPSIS

When Zachary Ezra Rawlins stumbles upon a mysterious book in the library in which he finds a fragment of his childhood story, he is unwittingly drawn into the gravity of a looming chain of events put into action long before his time. Following the trail of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—into the depth of an ancient library hidden deep beneath the earth, he must travel across time & space, reality & imagination, through a mystical stream of stories entwined, to uncover the true purpose & ending to his own story.

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤.

REVIEW

There is no other way to describe this book other than PURE MAGICAL. The reading experience itself felt like being submerged into a massive current of stories, each tangled within my consciousness but fading slightly out of grasp. I was in the present-time, but elsewhere all at once, following the erratic directions each storyline took me, but slowly spinning toward the ending altogether. It was utterly ethereal.

It seemed almost impossible to fully grasp all the hidden metaphors, understand all the characters, not to mention the plots within plots & stories within stories the book conveyed. It’d definitely confuse me at times when I failed to follow, which I understand caused many readers to find the book overwhelming, but that’s part of the charm isn’t it?

To have created such an atmospheric & whimsical storyline, told through an immense diversity of timelines, settings, characters, metaphors & angles, but all merging into a single story within the end—the story of The Starless Sea & all the tales within—I am again spellbound by the magic of Erin Morgenstern’s words.