Book Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
“We are all stardust and stories.”
I adore The Night Circus, and have been eagerly anticipating Morgenstern’s sophomore novel for eight years. I really should have tempered my expectations. The Starless Sea is the type of book that, in the beginning, I believed would strong feelings. You should either love it and be completely entranced by the atmospheric quiet of the tale, or be bored to tears by the apparent lack of action and a more common pacing. That’s what I expected when I read the first few pages. Unfortunately, if fell short for me. Instead of either loving or hating it, I mostly just find myself disappointed by it.
“If all endings are beginnings, are all beginnings also endings?”