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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
I absolutely loved The Night Circus, I still recommend it to anyone who's willing to listen. With that said, I was looking forward to Morgenstern's new book, but tried to maintain my expectations because you never know what the next book will be like.
I really enjoyed the first 100-200 pages, it is beautifully written, the world-building is amazing. I was really curious about what would end up happening, because surely this would all culminate into something even more amazing in the end.
I probably got to about the halfway point of the book and started wondering what I was waiting for, who's the big baddie? What is the goal? Where IS this all leading me to?
As I kept reading, I did feel like, while the stories here and there were interesting and magical, I still wasn't sure what I was waiting for, and I kept waiting, and waiting?
By the time I reached the last 100 pages, I felt like I was lost and waiting and that maybe I had missed something? I understood that things were picking up towards the end, there were a lot of things happening, but I probably felt as lost as the characters did, in the words, in time, etc. (That could also be seen as really good writing, because the author succeeded in losing me in the words and time too! Ha...)
Again, it is a beautifully written book, but I think I might just go and reread The Night Circus again. I would still read Erin Morgenstern's next book though.
Also - if you're a teacher, some of the short stories woven into this book and the world-building would be really great to use as examples of descriptive writing and figurative language.
I really enjoyed the first 100-200 pages, it is beautifully written, the world-building is amazing. I was really curious about what would end up happening, because surely this would all culminate into something even more amazing in the end.
I probably got to about the halfway point of the book and started wondering what I was waiting for, who's the big baddie? What is the goal? Where IS this all leading me to?
As I kept reading, I did feel like, while the stories here and there were interesting and magical, I still wasn't sure what I was waiting for, and I kept waiting, and waiting?
By the time I reached the last 100 pages, I felt like I was lost and waiting and that maybe I had missed something? I understood that things were picking up towards the end, there were a lot of things happening, but I probably felt as lost as the characters did, in the words, in time, etc. (That could also be seen as really good writing, because the author succeeded in losing me in the words and time too! Ha...)
Again, it is a beautifully written book, but I think I might just go and reread The Night Circus again. I would still read Erin Morgenstern's next book though.
Also - if you're a teacher, some of the short stories woven into this book and the world-building would be really great to use as examples of descriptive writing and figurative language.