Inside the Book: Erin Morgenstern (THE STARLESS SEA)

[@TheIrisMessenger]

I loved the starless sea, and I loved that she made the distinction between her writing and magical realism. She's the author of my dreams

[@naydine4339]

Only a 100 pages in, it's my new favorite book. You are an amazing writer and this is a beautiful story

[@Mum_and_LizzyLark]

I love this book! I’m a huge fan of the author too. I love that she writes modern magic-mythology like stories. My 4 year old loved listening to the audio book as well. She has listened to this five times now. It’s our bedtime story.

[@zijing9548]

Just finished it this morning. Cried because it was over. Loved loved loved it. Thank you Erin for giving us these worlds to live in.

[@tracyvirta6692]

Can not put this book down!! I so enjoy how the author, Erin, writes. Her writing is so beautiful and makes me fall into the story.

[@BoldbravoArt]

I just finished this book, God I loved it soooo much!!!!! I am so inspired to paint some of the images that got burned into my brain.

[@Waterlogged_Ricefield]

I can't believe I could love a book this much.😭😭 Thank you thank you thank you SO MUCH FOR WRITING THIS BOOK. IT'S NOW MY ESCAPE STATION....

[@bookellenic1327]

Sounds epic, I've heard the best about Morgestern's writing!

[@jesusramirez8453]

Just finished reading it, and though I loved lots of aspects of it, the story was really hard to follow if you expect any kind of resolution. Lots of detail, but it’s missing the big picture.

[@BooksForever]

She had me at 'library baby'.

[@NightSpire33]

Really looking forward to reading The Starless Sea soon 😊

[@bonniea8189]

If you miss a chance at age 11 and it comes back at age 25, is it really a missed chance? Here because I just finished this book and I have so many questions. **MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD** What the heck did the Owl King represent? The cats? The rabbit/rabbit imagery? The stag? What was with the castle that Zachary and Dorian never reached? If Allegra saw so much, how did she not know that the ending of one story/place would just lead to the creation of a new one? If Mirabel is Fate, how is she also the Story Sculptor? The Mouse-Man brought Fate's heart to the Story Sculptor to create a safe place for it. Why wouldn't she just put it back in herself then, especially if, without it, she dies over and over ad infinitum? If she had just held on to her own heart, she wouldn't have needed this Circumlocution Office version of a story to hide the heart, nor would she have needed Zachary to die and take the key to the bees (couldn't the key just have been sent down via the dumbwaiter?!). And if the answer to these questions is that I didn't understand this or I missed that, that's my point. This book is so heavy with the weight of tangled stories and imagery that it's incredibly difficult to work out the meaning of any of it. Literally just finished this book this morning and I'm so frustrated. I loved TNC and kept setting my reservations with TSS aside, expecting all the myriad metaphors, similes, and other imagery to come together into a cohesive whole at the end, but it didn't. Throughout I kept feeling I'd need to read it a second time to catch everything, but now I don't know if I want to be bothered. Ms. Morgenstern, we need excellent fiction in 2020. Next time please hire better editors and listen to them.

[@luabeth7520]

In the end it is revealed that Fate's heart is really just a heart belonging to Fate. "A heart kept by Fate until it is needed." The story sculptor was just one of Fate's vessels so the heart needed to be kept safe until the reason became clear. Until that painting ?. So Mirabel knew Zachary was going to need her heart after being sent down to lock up the story. To be the beginning of a new story. At least that's how I understood it. Also I think that Allegra just loved the Harbor so much that once she started seeing its destruction she did everything in her power to prevent that without looking beyond that. She fixated on the end so much that she didn't even grant the possibility of a beginning.

[@AceHardy]

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