Erin Morgenstern weaves, as ever, truly magical connections between people and spaces. All the pieces are there, but they won't come together the way you think. Her writing style is oddly clear, but the lists toward the simplistic storytelling and character development of fairy tales.

Have you ever read a book and thought, this book was written for me and me alone? The Starless Sea is one of those books for me. Morgenstern brings her skilled writing to a new dreamy world just slightly beyond our own. This atmospheric novel brings readers along a journey of self-growth and development. It's an ethereal bildungsroman in the vein of Neil Gaiman.

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Oh, how I loved The Starless Sea. This will be on my all-time favorite reads list. If you enjoy a detailed fantasy, this is the book for you. It's smart, creative, and entertaining. I immediately went and pre-ordered a physical copy after I finished this one!

This is an ode to the literary world. The Starless Sea was a beautiful exploration of story that dragged along for the first 100 pages but remained intriguing enough to keep me invested.

I got this book because I absolutely LOVED The Night Circus. This book was NOT the Night Circus and it left me confused. I felt like the book just kept jumping from place to place and I honestly didn't finish it. Maybe one day I'll give it another chance but it really was not what I was looking for in a book by this author.

I loved her last title, but found this one really impossible to get into for me. That opening scene made me squeamish and wasn't followed by something I absolutely needed to read. I tapped out early.

This is absolutely a love letter to stories and myths.. It's one of those books where I don't feel like you can analyze it too much, instead, just simply absorb the words and let them take you away.

A haunting and lyrical tour de force that I will re-read over and over for the rest of my life. One does not read Erin Morgenstern, one gets lost in her. This is the darkest, richest, most romantic fantasy I have read in a long, long time. Every word was a treasure.

Love. Love. Love! This was brilliantly gorgeous and I simultaneously never wanted it to end but wanted it to end.

What a beautiful, wonderful, terrible, confusing title! I read it, I adored it, I still don't understand it. As my first step in to the world of Morgenstern, I was hypnotized and cannot wait to return!

The Sea maybe be starless but this review can have them all. I loved this book. I haven't read The Night Circus so I cannot compare it to that. That being said, I enjoyed the whole experience of reading this. I can easily see this book not being for everyone, with the winding plot, stories within stories, and general oddness. For me, though, this was the exact perfect kind of weird.

This book has some of the most beautiful prose I've read in a long time. It also has stories inside of stories inside of an underground library world. A man from "our world" gets tied up in conspiracies and warring factions and a book that his childhood appears in. It's all trippy and wonderfully delicious.

(I apologize for not posting my review earlier. I forgot I had gotten an eARC as well as the hard copy ARC. I have already recommended this book to many, many people.)

I enjoyed The Starless Sea, just like I thought that I would. It's so bookish and fantastical, with a dash of mystery. Fantastic. I look forward to rereading it some day. Once wasn't enough.

This was a great adventure, full of enchantment and whimsy. The storytelling was exquisite! Morgenstern has a way with words. I would recommend this to anyone who loved The Night Circus.

Magical and wonderful...rich in its storytelling, myths and fables, symbols and imagination, It's not a quick read, but worth it.

Erin Morgenstern creates worlds with their own rules, and then weaves beautiful stories from them. A Borges-ian like labyrinth, I enjoyed this book a lot. I think it might require a little more faith in the author to get through the most complicated/opaque parts, but Morgenstern earned that with her first novel, "The Night Circus," and I think she successfully does what I love a novel to do: put me in a world that isn't my own.

I think I liked this one better than The Night Circus? Hopefully we won't have to wait as long for her third book - but I will!

I so wanted to love this book as The Night Circus is one of my all-time favorites but to be honest, I couldn't even finish it. The two contrasting storylines were really confusing and I didn't feel a kinship with any of the characters. I put it down and never picked it up again, it just didn't grab me the way her other book did. Maybe there is a big payoff in the second half but I couldn't even force myself to get there.

Erin Morgenstern uses her very beautiful, lyrical writing to craft a loveletter to storytelling in all forms. It is a slow burn magical portal fantasy adventure where the puzzles come together gradually, and is embedded with symbolism, deep mythology, and a fairytale like atmosphere.

It follows Zachary Ezra Rawlins, a college student studying the writing of video games. He finds a book that mysteriously tells a story of his childhood, and he works to track down what it all means. It is perhaps a second chance of transporting through the magical door he missed out on when he first encountered it at 11 years old. More stories emerge.

It's definitely for fans of an atmospheric novel. It moves slow and is focused on immersing the reader into the world so they themselves can feel the magic.

A book of big imagination...possibly its greatest asset and its greatest flaw. Morgenstern enchants but cannot keep up with the expectations she creates.