The Starless Sea
By Erin Morgenstern
Great expectation and magical writing but falls short
After reading "The Night Circus", I had great expectations from this book. The author does have a good style of writing which takes your places. Reading one of her books is actually like going into a daze which is slowly taking you away to a different world and tickling you with its secrets. This book does follow through on a lot of aspects specially when we start getting into the detailed description of the magical space. A person finds a book in the library and while reading it he finds that the multiple stories in that book contains one story from his life also. An incident which happened in his past is portrayed in the book as a story. How? Things certainly are promising in the beginning of the book and you feel looking forward to a lot happening. However, most of the time, I was just lost. There were many places where even trying to figure out what is happening was an effort.
Non Existent Plot and lacks substance
The book does not seem to have a story to be very frank. I did not understand the reason and the purpose of anything that happens. It seems the writer started writing something and got sidelined and just wrote something to complete the book. This book lacks a purpose. Now I am all in for magic and mythical spaces and life behind painted doors, but there needs to be some substance to it. Apart from that, it would have been better if so many stories did not go on at one point. It is tough to keep track specially when everyone is just doing things and there is no purpose behind any action by anyone.
Lovely and magical aesthetics and dream like world
The things which I like the best is a harbor full of books from floor to ceiling. I wish I could get access to such a place which has so many books to read. The add-on making it even more wonderful is an invisible kitchen which sends you things to eat. Comfortable sofas, fire, books and yummy food to eat. This is my dream place. Only thing in this book is that it is too magical and it gets destroyed in the end. Only thing I thought at that time was what happened to those books.
Few Excerpts
Few areas that I love in the book after which I started to get lost.
"Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate" Stories are meant to be told but indeed the one who tells the story makes a big difference on how people take it.
As long as there have been bees, there have been keepers. So true yet sounds trivial.
Goodreads Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3375034239
Overall Review: 3
Grip Factor: 3
Writing Style: 4
Engaging Plot: 2.5
Characters: 2.5
Satisfying end: 3
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