It swaps between the main character, Zachary, and the love interest, Dorian, as they both tumble deeper into the maze of the old Harbors. On the other hand, three of the six total parts managed to capture intrigue in its “unrelated” chapters, but these three parts were significantly different from the other three in two ways: 1) they were their own continuous storyline, and 2) their parts were more relevantly clear. It left me annoyed that there were these strange, confusing, questionably relevant blocks of text between what I knew to be interesting and exciting and tense.
Pair that with Morgenstern’s delight in a cliffhanger ending for her chapters, and it was incredibly frustrating. Until that point, you’re given several different stories from Sweet Sorrows in its titular part 1, and then even more mythical stories from Fortunes and Fables in the titular part 2. Unfortunately, that realization is held off until I’d say the third part of the book, with the Ballad of Simon and Eleanor. It’s an interesting story, of course, full of stories that seem like fantasy until you’re given reason to wonder if they really happened in this strange world that is known as the Harbor and the Starless Sea. I will discuss a lot of the content in those “unrelated” portions in the section below, but it’s important to discuss the repercussions of breaking up the narrative in the way that Morgenstern did. It’s all supposed to tie together neatly. Unrelated is in quotes, of course, because it turns out that they are, in fact, related in some fashion. It’s divided into a total of six parts, and with each of those parts, the standard narrative breakdown is Main Quest/”unrelated”/Main Quest, etc. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.īut with each passing moment, doom draws closer.Starless Sea takes a big risk with the structure of the narrative.
Her reward is a sentence of death.įleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:Ī broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.Ī drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother’s shadow and claims a purpose of his own.Īn imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact – one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe. An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins.Ī gifted student foretells an apocalypse.
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