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The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
DNF at 30%
I could not for the life of me tell you what's happening in this book. It started off very well, with a man finding a book containing his story and the stories of many others. But then it quickly falls apart into heady, lofty prose that is meant to sound philosophical and collegiate. The plot is dropped and it's just... prose. 30% may not seem like a lot of reading, but that is 5.5 hours out of an 18.5 audiobook (I would have struggled reading the print version more than I did with this). I wanted to love it. The Night Circus is one of my favorite books, but this one fell so short and couldn't create a world as magical as Night Circus'.
I could not for the life of me tell you what's happening in this book. It started off very well, with a man finding a book containing his story and the stories of many others. But then it quickly falls apart into heady, lofty prose that is meant to sound philosophical and collegiate. The plot is dropped and it's just... prose. 30% may not seem like a lot of reading, but that is 5.5 hours out of an 18.5 audiobook (I would have struggled reading the print version more than I did with this). I wanted to love it. The Night Circus is one of my favorite books, but this one fell so short and couldn't create a world as magical as Night Circus'.