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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
I loved everything about this book. 5+++ stars. I still don't know what to write for a review, though, almost a month after I finished it. I will buy a proper copy and reread it. Needless to say, it's amazing and you should all read it.
This book captures that beautiful etherealness that Morgenstern is so good at. The confusion is part of it, to be sure. But for me it's not so much a confusion as it is seeing things through a crystal ball, through a mist, through a wavy mirror. The story is there, but it's through a sort of veil.
Morgenstern's books are much less about plot or character or even the world than they are about the feeling you get when you read them. The idea that magic is real, if you have faith. That love is true. The atmosphere that it builds around you. This makes it more difficult to grasp. But I find myself occasionally not needing clarity and a straight forward tale. Sometimes I want to sail away through a magic door that leads to a weird land that doesn't really exist and feel different. And this book is wonderful to do that.
This book captures that beautiful etherealness that Morgenstern is so good at. The confusion is part of it, to be sure. But for me it's not so much a confusion as it is seeing things through a crystal ball, through a mist, through a wavy mirror. The story is there, but it's through a sort of veil.
Morgenstern's books are much less about plot or character or even the world than they are about the feeling you get when you read them. The idea that magic is real, if you have faith. That love is true. The atmosphere that it builds around you. This makes it more difficult to grasp. But I find myself occasionally not needing clarity and a straight forward tale. Sometimes I want to sail away through a magic door that leads to a weird land that doesn't really exist and feel different. And this book is wonderful to do that.