And it’s a fable about the inevitability of change, which can be both wrenching and beautiful-oftentimes simultaneously. It’s a narrative lush with the aesthetics of symbolism, within which the reader, like the characters, is invited to find their own meaning. It’s about struggling to recapture childhood’s certainty of magic in your twenties when everything feels liminal and random about what stories mean to us, and the possibility of our meaning something to them in turn. Can he trust Dorian, a handsome stranger of unknown allegiance? Who is the enigmatic Mirabel, really? And what will happen when the Owl King finally comes?Įrin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea is by turns gentle and heartfelt: a love-letter to fairy tales which exists within its own mythology. Zachary isn’t alone in his search: tracked by a secret organisation determined to find and destroy all doors that lead to the Starless Sea, he must untangle a web of history, secrets and fairy tales to find the truth. But when, in his campus library, he stumbles upon a mysterious book, Sweet Sorrows-a volume which contains a true story about Zachary’s childhood-he finds himself on a quest to reach the Starless Sea, a hidden place where stories both live and come to life, empowered by myth and magic. Now, as an adult, he feels adrift, constantly longing for something he doesn’t know how to find. When Zachary Ezra Rawlins was a child, he had a chance to walk through an impossible, magical door and missed it.
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