The Starless Sea

3.5 rounded up. I loved Night Circus so I really wanted to love this book, but it wasn't quite there. The world-building is great. Morgenstern's creativity is really spectacular. Unfortunately, I feel like this book was about 100 pages too long and kinda went off the rails. It occurred to me that that might have been on purpose, to sort of mirror the plot in the reading experience, but... I don't know, maybe that's too meta for me. I felt like it kinda quit going anywhere slightly after the halfway mark and was left unsatisfied. There was a whooooole bunch of nothing that occurred and then major huge things that occurred in the epilogue that felt like an afterthought. I'm not sure if the things that were left open-ended were supposed to be done so in an imaginative fashion or a “there might be a sequel” fashion but I'm getting tired of every freakin' book having to be part of a series so that made me a little grouchy too.