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adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
So many layers. One of those books you need to reread just to catch everything you missed the first time through. A beautiful mystical world. With books, libraries, and cats.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexual content
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wish I loved this book. I was so annoyed with it and just wanted it to end. I found myself wanting to skip through all the description and get to the plot. The writing felt more pretentious than charming. It reminded me so much of Thistlefoot in its style and format and Mr. Penumbra in its plot. There was so much going on here-multiple stories to keep track of, so many symbols, jumps in time- I’d need to read it again multiple times to understand it all. The ending was confusing, frustrating, and sad, and a whole fever dream. The romance was.. sudden, confusing, and shallow. My favorite part of the whole thing was the Kitchen but then the bees were so creepy :(
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Grief
adventurous
challenging
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Stalking
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Violence, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“A game or a book that has meaning to me might be boring to you, or vice versa. Stories are personal, you relate or you don’t.”
10/10!!! NO NOTES!!!💖🐰🏴☠️⭐️🌊🍯🐝🗝️🗡️ Pass go 5x, build a hotel on Park Place, and collect 1 million dollars!!
This book was fantastic! I purposefully took so long to finish it because I just did not want it to end. I literally cried when I finished it, not only because it was beautiful, but also because it’s over now and I’ll never be able to experience it for the first time again 🥹, and now I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself 😭. Reading The Starless Sea is like reading a jigsaw puzzle. There are all of these stories that you know connect in someway, but you’re unsure how until the very end when you finally see the whole picture. And it’s absolutely stunning🥹.
I will say though if you are a plot girly and like stories with a very forward narrative then this book is NOT for you. However, if you love magic, whimsy, fairytales, myths, stories within stories, a little bit of romance, endings that aren’t really endings, and non-traditional forms of storytelling THIS is the book you’ve waiting for! 🩵🐝🗝️🗡️
Pro tip: I read this book while listening to the “Ambient Dreamscapes” playlist on Spotify and it was the PERFECT ambience for the story. That playlist matches the vibe and tone of this book to a T. In fact, if you told me Ms. Erin Morgenstern herself created that playlist specifically for The Starless Sea I would believe you.👌🏽😊
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I loved the feeling of the book. How at the first half I was confused and then at the second half everything is connecting in intersting way.
My only take is that I didn't like how there is so many insta-love there is.like you met this person for the first time fo like a five minutes and you are already in love and already kissing and doing the deeds ??!!
Overall I liked it it was fun read.
My only take is that I didn't like how there is so many insta-love there is.
Overall I liked it it was fun read.
Content Warnings
Minor: Gore, Violence
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence
First book in a long time that gave me that nostalgic and magical feeling of possibilities and unveiling worlds that I would get when I was a child. Like the next door I find just might lead me to the Starless Sea.
I can’t really explain why I rated this book as high as I did. The vibes were immaculate, but I feel like I don’t really understand the plot enough to pass judgment on it.
This book is like A Series of Unfortunate Events for adults. There’s secret societies and schisms and betrayals and replacements and (doomed?) love and loss and a love of stories and reading and knowledge and mystery and improbable events and the thieving of objects and the lengths which people will go to get them back and there’s fortune tellers and literary references and ordinary people and imagined futures and I could go on and on and on.
Despite being the cause of most of my confusion while reading, I enjoyed the way that the stories within this story began to blend, to the point where I as the reader couldn’t quite tell where one story ended and the other began. It was like I was being buried in the story, covered in layer after layer of words. As a lover of stories, this was ideal for me.
This book is like A Series of Unfortunate Events for adults. There’s secret societies and schisms and betrayals and replacements and (doomed?) love and loss and a love of stories and reading and knowledge and mystery and improbable events and the thieving of objects and the lengths which people will go to get them back and there’s fortune tellers and literary references and ordinary people and imagined futures and I could go on and on and on.
Despite being the cause of most of my confusion while reading, I enjoyed the way that the stories within this story began to blend, to the point where I as the reader couldn’t quite tell where one story ended and the other began. It was like I was being buried in the story, covered in layer after layer of words. As a lover of stories, this was ideal for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Atmospheric, loved the world building. I actually really enjoyed all the jumping around in time and stories though can see why others wouldn't. Very close to a 4.5 for me but just didn't quite get there because some sections of the beginning did drag on a bit.
CW: Don't bother picking this up if you DNF a book as soon as there's a slight Harry Potter reference in a book bc there's a couple minor ones in here.
CW: Don't bother picking this up if you DNF a book as soon as there's a slight Harry Potter reference in a book bc there's a couple minor ones in here.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Stalking
Moderate: Violence, Blood
Minor: Suicidal thoughts