![]() Zachary Ezra Rollins is a fortune-teller's son, a lover of books and cocktails, a graduate student studying video games, and gay. While it doesn't entirely succeed on that front, it did succeed in making me feel like I was a child falling into a story again - which is, as the book establishes early on, very close to the same thing. ![]() ![]() I felt as if I'd read the book because I'd played the game, interacted intimately with the cover art, steeped myself in a loving tribute to the book's atmosphere.Ĭonversely, The Starless Sea is a book that wants to make you feel like you're playing a game - specifically a game like Myst, with puzzles, history, mystery. Curiously, though, I felt as if I had, and even as if I'd enjoyed it - likely, on reflection, through a combination of the gorgeously evocative cover and the fact that it was accompanied by a browser game developed by Failbetter Games, creators of Fallen London. I came to The Starless Sea not having read The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern's fantastically successful 2012 debut. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Starless Sea Author Erin Morgenstern ![]()
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