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Erin Morgenstern is the writer of The Night Circus (2011) and The Starless Sea (2019) and hopes to someday write other books and then she has more things to listing in biographies.
She grew up in Massachusetts and studied theatre and studio art at Smith College. She currently lives with her husband Adam and the world'due south cutest kitten in the eye of the woods in the Berkshires where she writes, plays video games, and tries to better her cocktail mixing skills.
She is a Cancer with a Leo moon and Taurus rising and she knows what all of that means. She collects bloodmilk jewelry. She knits things as long every bit they don't involve too much math. She paints. She gets obsessed with artisan perfume oils and drinks a lot of tea. - Adapted from author'southward website
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Publisher'south Weekly
/* Starred Review */ Built from fables, myths, and fairy tales, Morgenstern'south long-awaited second fantastical novel (following The Night Circus) delves into a vast subterranean library, the Harbor on the Starless Body of water , a giant, maze-like, subterranean library where all languages are comprehensible to everyone, and time moves differently. Its wonders include moving statues, edible stories, and a sea fabricated of honey. Narrative-obsessed grad pupil Zachary Rawlins happens upon an sometime, authorless collection in the campus library. Among the tales of an improbable land of books and their devotees is an chestnut from Zachary'southward own childhood, a time when he found a magical door but chose to walk abroad, disbelieving. Desperate to empathise and longing for a second chance at chance, Zachary investigates and finds a literary party thrown by a clandestine guild. He goes through a painted door in Cardinal Park and into the Harbor itself, now long past its heyday and by and large deserted. Aboveground, the secret society is trying to shut as many doors equally possible, hoping to continue the Starless Bounding main subconscious. Aided by otherworldly Mirabel, whose motives and history are obscure, and alluring Dorian, a former society member who opposes the closing of the doors, Zachary works to understand how the Harbor brutal into disrepair and what he can do to protect it. He also learns what information technology means to exist not just a reader simply a part of the story, and what happens after that story ends. This dearest letter to bibliophiles is dreamlike and uncanny, grounded in deeply felt emotion, and absolutely thrilling. Amanuensis: Richard Pino, InkWell Management. (November.) --Staff (Reviewed 07/fifteen/2019) (Publishers Weekly, vol 266, event 28, p).
Library Journal
/* Starred Review */ In this follow-upwards to Morgenstern's magical debut, The Nighttime Circus, grad student Zachary Ezra Rawlins discovers a mysterious book in his academy library stacks containing loyal acolytes, primal seekers, and lovers trapped in time, not to mention the story of a childhood incident wherein he finds a door painted on a wall but doesn't risk going through. Smartly post-obit enigmatic clues, he is led to a masquerade party, a adult female dressed equally Max from Where the Wild Things Are, and a storytelling man who rescues him from murderous pursuers and with whom he falls in love. And that leads him to a doorway opening on an ancient underground sanctuary, bordering on a starless body of water, where he follows numerous threads to notice out what his story really is every bit he fights to protect the stories already at that place, the stories interwoven with his own. What results is a magnificent quest, a sense of unfolding adventure and danger, aureate-wrought fantasy, and countless provocation on what storytelling really means. VERDICT In the stop, Morgenstern proves wrong one of her villains, who proclaims that a story is like an egg; break it, and information technology'due south lost. Her stories flow together equally they catamenia forward and will enthrall a broad range of readers. Highly recommended. [Prepub Alert, iv/22/nineteen.] --Barbara Hoffert (Reviewed 09/01/2019) (Library Periodical, vol 144, event 8, p67).
Kirkus Reviews
/* Starred Review */ A withdrawn graduate educatee embarks on an epic quest to restore balance to the world in this long-predictable follow-up to The Night Circus (2011).Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a typical millennial introvert; he likes video games, escapist reading, and drinking sidecars. But when he recognizes himself in the pages of a mysterious volume from the academy library, he'due south unnerved—and determined to uncover the truth. What begins as a journey for answers turns into something much bigger, and Zachary must make up one's mind whether to trust the handsome stranger he meets at a highflying literary fundraiser in New York or to retreat back to his thesis and forget the whole matter. In a loftier-wire feat of metatextual derring-exercise, Morgenstern weaves Zachary'south run a risk into a stunning array of linked fables, myths, and origin stories. There are pirates and weary travelers, painters who tin can come across the future, lovers torn asunder, a menacing Owl Male monarch, and safe harbors for all the stories of the world, far below the Earth on the golden shores of a Starless Body of water. Clocking in at more 500 pages, the novel requires patience as Morgenstern puts all the pieces in place, only information technology is exquisitely pleasurable to watch the gears of this epic fantasy turn in one case they're set in motility. As in The Night Circus, Morgenstern is at her best when she imagines worlds and rooms and parties in vivid detail, right down to the ballroom stairs "festooned with lanterns and garlands of paper dipped in gold" or a cloak carved from ice with "ships and sailors and sea monsters...lost in the drifting snow." This novel is a dearest letter to readers every bit much equally an invitation: Come and see how much magic is left in the world. Fans of Neil Gaiman and V.E. Schwab, Kelly Link and Susanna Clarke will want to heed the call. An ambitious and bewitching gem of a book with mystery and passion inscribed on every page. (Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2019).
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