The Starless Sea
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The Starless Sea 〰️
The stories! Oh! The stories this book tells. Literally! So many stories and yet they somehow all fit together at the end.
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The easiest way to describe how good this book was, (especially after reading Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus), is that now anything Morgenstern writes will be an automatic insta-buy for me. I absolutely LOVE her writing style. It's so unique I could pick up her books with no cover, start reading, and know it was her writing it.
The sheer amount of imagination to have like a bazillion different stories all being told at once and yet somehow all intertwine in the end is something I find incredible. The author essentially wrote like 50 novels in one yet none of it felt out of place.
Morgenstern's description of literally everything in this book is astounding. I could vividly smell all the books, see all the elaborate stories, and taste the honey on my tongue. Plus there were cats. Lots of cats. I love cats so that makes this book A-Okay in my books. Not to mention that the MC is gay makes my LGBT heart squeal for representation.
Honestly, I don't want to divulge too much of the book because I think people need to experience this for themselves. It's not just reading a book. It really is an experience. I just wish I could learn a little bit more about how the underworld library Starless Sea came to be, but that's just a small nitpick. The rest of the worldbuilding was great. Though now that I think of it, I would have liked to see what happens when <sspoiler>Kat opens her door and if Zachary and Dorian eventually make out to the top world. </spoiler> But it still had a great ending.
Overall, I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good story.
