無星之海

The Starless Sea is a lyrical, whimsical dreamscape. It is stories nested in stories. Fantasy and fairy tales, adventure and mystery all woven together with honeyed words and Stardust. One of the best reads I have had since The Night Circus.

The ending was so disappointing. The Book itself was good, the writing was beautiful as always coming from Erin but yeah no hard pass for me. Not a waste of time but I wouldn't reread it at all.

A college student finds a story from his own childhood in a library book and it sends him on a fantastical adventure through time, magical doors, secret societies, and Harbors along the Starless Sea. This book is a love letter to stories, their tellers, and their readers. Its focus is definitely more on the WORLD than the plot. Even if the main plot seemed to get lost, the beauty is in discovering how all the stories within the story intertwined and connected together. Stories flowed without ending and circled back around to beginning. The Starless Sea (the place in the book, not the literal book) is a literary wonderland- it’s like the room from Willy Wonka’s factory where everything is edible, except here everything is a story. Would love to see this world come alive visually in a movie. It’s the kind of book you want to exist in. Like the world we WOULD exist in, if the story of every person, object, and place was written upon it or we simply took the time to read them.“There are so many pieces to a person. So many small stories and so few opportunities to read them.”“…I’m losing my mind, but in a slow, achingly beautiful sort of way.”