![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Morgenstern’s focus on form over function saps The Starless Sea from ever finding any of the weight behind its words it so desperately craves, leaving little more than a pretty facade. ![]() “‘But who decides what the meaning is?’ Zachary wonders aloud.” The reader, one of the students answers. In an attempt to focus the distracted group, Kat poses a question, asking, “What makes a story compelling?” She gets a range of answers. Our hero, Zachary Ezra Rawlins (the book almost exclusively refers to him by his full name, so shall I) finds himself at a round-table discussion on innovation in storytelling, an event his friend Kat goaded him into guest moderating with her. In Erin Morgenstern’s new novel, The Starless Sea, stories are everything. ![]()
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