The Starless Sea (2019) follows the tale of Zachary Ezra Rawlins. 'Can you imagine what could happen if it were to become common knowledge?' says one of Zachary's adversaries of the Starless Sea. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern science fiction and fantasy book and audiobook. fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous mysterious medium-paced. If one insists on digging a little deeper, the novel feints fleetingly at broader themes: the evolution of storytelling in the modern age - Zachary, after all, studies video games and there are aspects of that medium in the way his adventure unfolds - and the disjunction between a book's content and its aesthetic, as well as the debate over how stories are best preserved. paperback hardcover digital audio Language The Starless Sea. This is a book replete with symbols, though if you are looking for sensible meanings attached to any of them, you are likely to come up short. Interspersed throughout the main narrative are snippets of other stories - of pirates and owl kings and dollhouses - that seem at first to be independent, but are slowly revealed to be elements in the intricate puzzle-box of the novel.

Morgenstern has a background in theatre and her worlds are crafted with a scene designer's eye - a hallway where a thousand doorless doorknobs hang from ribbons, tagged like corpses in a mortuary a library sunken into a reflecting pool and inhabited by cats empty cities of honey and bone. There are doors to this place, some painted by Mirabel, a dauntless pink-haired adventurer, but they grow fewer and fewer. It might also be the key to the Starless Sea, a secret place beneath the earth where countless stories are kept, which Zachary almost reached as a child but failed.

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