Book 55 in 20121.
“The Starless Sea” by Erin Morgenstern.
I loved Erin Morgenstern’s book “The Night Circus”, this is her second novel. I started to read this maybe a year ago, I got about thirty pages in and quit. This time I was looking for an audiobook, it was available, so I gave it another go.
Honestly I don’t know where to start. This was all over the place. It is considered fantasy fiction, and was definitely “other worldly”. If I understand correctly Time fell in love with Fate in the secret underground world with a starless sea made of honey. A mouse killed the Owl King, and the Moon is somehow involved. A man named Zachary enters the secret world through a door, which apparently he is a key to the end of all stories. There are also people trying to keep people out, others to keep people in, and others writing stories that are ever changing. There a giant bees, mysterious Inn Keepers, guards with sword tattoos and lots of cats.
Confused? Ha. Me too. I honestly only kept reading to see if it would all tie together and if I could make sense of it all. I didn’t get that closure. There were always new characters being introduced, and of course some characters were the same as other characters because of countless lives. So much fantasy, I mentally could not process all that was going on. Whew. Overall afterthought, yikes.