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Wow this book didn’t work for me. Here’s why: I don’t think it’s spoilers but maybe you might if you have been waiting months to read this. You have been warned.
I'm going to be brutally honest for a second here: This book lost me the moment we find out Keepers have their tongues cut off to better protect stories. That is one of my top five hangups in a book and reasons I will skip something.
The story is interesting but I don't think the world building is done particularly well or that the manu ...more
I'm going to be brutally honest for a second here: This book lost me the moment we find out Keepers have their tongues cut off to better protect stories. That is one of my top five hangups in a book and reasons I will skip something.
The story is interesting but I don't think the world building is done particularly well or that the manu ...more
I am one of those anomalous readers who was not wild about The Night Circus. There was something unsatisfying about it, in my opinion. This book suffers from a similar sense of there not being a there there. The descriptions and story are so vague, and hand-wavy, as to be insubstantial and allegorical. (There are also some egregious errors about academic libraries, classifications, and librarian with bun stereotypes in here that I cannot countenance.) There is some lovely imagery at times, but t
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Best read in one session: it's that immersive. The imagery here is incredible, but occasionally the world building fails (so many corridors, so many levels). At times this is like a series of short stories, only they've been cut up and intertwined and sometimes you're not sure whose story you're reading about and when you are. Granted, this was an ARC and perhaps in the finished version readers will get more of a clue about that! I did keep thinking about the movie version and how in many ways "
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This review makes me so very sad because I adored The Night Circus. But The Starless Sea left me flat, and with 42% of the book read, I could simply go no further. The fanciful, half-magical world of the Night Circus was just close enough to reality to pull me in. The Starless Sea is a jumble of real and unreal, with a heavy emphasis on the latter, of storyline versus short stories randomly scattered throughout, and of confusing and bizarre characters with whom I simply could not form affection
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FUN.
I feel very lucky that I got my hands on an early reader copy. It is such a fun read from beginning to end.
I wanted to enjoy this. I loved Night Circus. But this was such a trial to read through, to stay engaged, to connect all the dots. It has taken me months, which of course adds to the arduous challenge, to finish this. I must confess I was lost much of the time and needed a very descriptive summary to help me keep it all together.
Eh.
Jun 18, 2019
Lara
marked it as to-read
Aug 30, 2019
Jess
marked it as to-read
Nov 04, 2019
Sarah
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Nov 06, 2019
Lisa Vegan
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Nov 06, 2019
Liz Laurin
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Oct 20, 2020
Mihika
marked it as to-read
