emilyangela 's review for:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

1.0

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I don’t usually write reviews, but I feel like I have to explain my low rating (which I also rarely give). On a purely sentence-level, the writing is beautiful. The premise is intriguing, the characters interesting when you first meet them. I was totally into this book for about 50 pages and then I realized I had one huge question I could not overlook: what is happening? After (spoilers) Zachary arrives at the Harbor of the Starless Sea when Dorian chucks him through a doorway, nothing interesting happens again. Hundreds of pages follow and they are only boring and confusing. The book is a story about the importance of stories yet it has no real story itself. I loved The Night Circus, and this is almost certainly the most disappointed I have ever been by an author’s sophomore effort.