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thequack4 's review for:
The Starless Sea
by Erin Morgenstern
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
this book spent more time wanking itself silly over how IMPORTANT books are that it forgot to be good or interesting.
the writing style was overly smug and trying too hard to be Deep but also quirky. like a tumblr kid who thinks they’re douglas adams. every other sentence felt like it was written to have a viral moment.
too much time was spent making everything mysterious that i didn’t end up caring about any of the characters, except maybe madame love rawlins and kat hawkins. i couldn’t properly care about zachary and dorian’s relationship because i just wasn’t given enough information about either, or their feelings for one another, to care.
zachary feels like he was written by an Autism Mommy. sweet video game boy who is so confused by his world that he wishes life were video game with buttons and dialogue choices 🥺🥺 poor little baby who prefers books to yucky people 🥺 ok he also reminds me of my mum in a bad way
nothing felt like it was plotted out in this book. not even in a thematically relevant way but genuinely just that things happen after the other without much explanation or care. i only read the entire thing because i wanted to see if it explained itself. it did not.
i was going to give it a slightly higher rating (maybe 2.75) for the nice bit about letting endings happening, until the metaphor was explained in the next sentence. for all that nothing in this book is explained, why choose the most obvious message to make explicit???
500 pages of booktok “books are so amazing 🤩 the feminine urge to own a bookstore with a cat and a cafe 🤩 cozy murder mystery set in the alps with a witch and her cat 🤩 buying books is a separate hobby from reading books 🤩” and none of it was good.
you cannot convince me this ISNT a young adult book. no substance.
the writing style was overly smug and trying too hard to be Deep but also quirky. like a tumblr kid who thinks they’re douglas adams. every other sentence felt like it was written to have a viral moment.
too much time was spent making everything mysterious that i didn’t end up caring about any of the characters, except maybe madame love rawlins and kat hawkins. i couldn’t properly care about zachary and dorian’s relationship because i just wasn’t given enough information about either, or their feelings for one another, to care.
zachary feels like he was written by an Autism Mommy. sweet video game boy who is so confused by his world that he wishes life were video game with buttons and dialogue choices 🥺🥺 poor little baby who prefers books to yucky people 🥺 ok he also reminds me of my mum in a bad way
nothing felt like it was plotted out in this book. not even in a thematically relevant way but genuinely just that things happen after the other without much explanation or care. i only read the entire thing because i wanted to see if it explained itself. it did not.
i was going to give it a slightly higher rating (maybe 2.75) for the nice bit about letting endings happening, until the metaphor was explained in the next sentence. for all that nothing in this book is explained, why choose the most obvious message to make explicit???
500 pages of booktok “books are so amazing 🤩 the feminine urge to own a bookstore with a cat and a cafe 🤩 cozy murder mystery set in the alps with a witch and her cat 🤩 buying books is a separate hobby from reading books 🤩” and none of it was good.
you cannot convince me this ISNT a young adult book. no substance.