![]() There is a LOT of bad writing out there, particularly in the fantasy genre. I think it’s important we recognise and call out things that need to be done better. But making a stroppy unconsidered rant isn’t the right way to do that :)įinally, I will say that there seemed to be a sentiment of ‘if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all’ in some comments and while yes, I acknowledge this wasn’t the right way to go about it, I absolutely disagree. There are plenty of critical reviews around now, but at the time of its release there wasn’t much diversity of opinion, at least not in my experience. ![]() I also wish I’d read any reviews about The Starless Sea that weren’t raving about it so I could’ve saved myself £15 and a week of my time (to the commenter who said I was probably still salty about that, you’re absolutely on the money). I do think that Erin Morgenstern models her books and ideas heavily on the books and ideas of Susanna Clarke, and if you’re going to do that you need to be open to comparison, favourable or not. You’re totally right, pitting one author against another is petty and unproductive. It's also pretty obvious that The Night Circus is a ripoff of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, just.much more poorly written.ĮDIT: Thanks everyone for commenting. Mysterious, impeccably researched, and the type of book that will reveal something new with every read. Piranesi is everything the Starless Sea wishes it was. It's weird how both books came out at the same time when one reads like a bootleg copy of the other. It was just a mash of set pieces the author thought were cool. The Starless Sea was a mess of a book: it had no plot, narrative structure or really any point at all. That's as far as the similarities go, however. ![]() Something that struck me is how many crossover concepts there were with Morgenstern's The Starless Sea: oceans, labyrinths, mysterious messages, allegorical figures. ![]()
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