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A review by sophialoumos
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
4.0
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern draw me in with its beautiful cover. The story itself is really well thought through and multiple stories happen at the same time but still get told from the beginning to the end.
The first few pages were amazing and pulled me completely into the story. I really liked the personality of the main character as well as his chemistry with his love interest. However, during the last 150 - 200 pages the story became quite complicated and my imagination couldn‘t really keep up. Also the change of scenery in almost every chapter made it quite hard to follow the already complicated main story. Sometimes I felt almost in need of writing down what happened just to understand the story. If I had to tell a friend what the book is about, it would be really hard to recreate it, because of its many turns. Maybe this story would be easier to follow as a movie.
Don‘t get me wrong: the book itself is great! Nevertheless there could have been a little less scenery changes and plottwistes.
On a sidenote: What I also thought while reading was that there were a lot of similarities to Harry Potter. E. g.: The scene in the Ballroom almost at the end could be compared to the scene in King‘s Cross with Harry and Dumbledore. This is not a negative point, however if the writer wouldn‘t have talked about Harry Potter in the first few pages, I probably wouldn‘t have realized it.
The first few pages were amazing and pulled me completely into the story. I really liked the personality of the main character as well as his chemistry with his love interest. However, during the last 150 - 200 pages the story became quite complicated and my imagination couldn‘t really keep up. Also the change of scenery in almost every chapter made it quite hard to follow the already complicated main story. Sometimes I felt almost in need of writing down what happened just to understand the story. If I had to tell a friend what the book is about, it would be really hard to recreate it, because of its many turns. Maybe this story would be easier to follow as a movie.
Don‘t get me wrong: the book itself is great! Nevertheless there could have been a little less scenery changes and plottwistes.
On a sidenote: What I also thought while reading was that there were a lot of similarities to Harry Potter. E. g.: The scene in the Ballroom almost at the end could be compared to the scene in King‘s Cross with Harry and Dumbledore. This is not a negative point, however if the writer wouldn‘t have talked about Harry Potter in the first few pages, I probably wouldn‘t have realized it.