losersfiction 's review for:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

5.0

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I don’t know that I’ve read a book like this before… it was strange and dreamlike. I enjoyed it a lot: it felt like ready a mythology mixed with a dream. The whole thing reminded me of the Cloud Atlas movie. I didn’t understand everything that happened, but the book somehow made me feel alright with that. I didn’t understand exactly what the owl king was or who it was; I didn’t understand what it meant that the cycle seemed to start over at the end with the friend; and I didn’t fully grasp whether the starless sea was the universe or what - yet I still really enjoyed the book. It was a unique blend of surrealism and mythos alongside an intriguing love story and conglomeration of other stories. I feel like I may read it again sometime.