Hi everyone! Today I’m excited to participate in the Intl Blog Tour for THE STARLESS SEA by Erin Morgenstern hosted by PRH International! This Adult Fantasy just released on November 5th, 2019 from Doubleday Publishing. Read more about it below and check out my quick thoughts + favorite quotes (so far!).
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern Published by Random House ISBN: 0385545363
on November 5, 2019
Genres: Adult, Fantasy
Pages: 502
Format: Paperback
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Source: Penguin Random House International
I received this book for free from Penguin Random House International in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood.
Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library, hidden far below the surface of the earth.
What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians--it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also those who are intent on its destruction.
Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly-soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose--in both the mysterious book and in his own life.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
…Reading Update…
I have only had this book for two days so far, but I am 200 pages in and I am IN LOVE. The Starless Sea is a whimsical tale about stories. A love letter to magical tales, of hidden doors that lead to a mystical place. Of missed opportunities. Of being, perhaps, on the verge of stumbling into the beginning of the kind of stories heroes and heroines journey into. As well as facing the dangers within these stories.
This is my first Erin Morgenstern book but I already know I will pick up The Night Circus after this one. And perhaps, reread The Starless Sea again. Even though I still have 300 pages left. And yet, I am incredibly hooked with Zachary Ezra’s Rawlins’ story within The Starless Sea and intrigued by the Sweet Sorrows secrets.
For now, I leave a few of my favorite quotes (of many). This book is extremely quotable!
…The Starless Sea Quotes…
A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.
There are stories that are more fragile still: For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.
For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to.
Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking.
Those who seek will find.
Their doors have been waiting for them.
But what happens next will vary.
“Once, very long ago, Time fell in love with Fate.”
“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
Add this book to your TBR!
About Erin Morgenstern
I am the author of The Night Circus (2011) and The Starless Sea (2019) and someday hopefully I will write other books so I have more things to list in biographies.
I grew up in Massachusetts and studied theatre and studio art at Smith College. I currently live with my husband Adam and the world’s cutest kitten in the middle of the woods in the Berkshires where I am writing and playing video games and trying to improve my cocktail mixing skills.
I am a Cancer with a Leo moon and Taurus rising and yes I know what all of that means. I collect bloodmilk jewelry. I knit things as long as they don’t involve too much math. I paint. I get obsessed with artisan perfume oils and I drink a lot of tea.
OOoooh this sounds like my type of read. I am yet to read the Night Circus and now this is totally on my reading list too… Looking forward to your full review!
Happy Reading <3
Chanzie @ Free To Be Me