![]() Take your time with it, as you would an expensive cocktail or a warm, honeyed bread. When I finished it, I was uncertain of my thoughts about the whole the next night, when I realized there was nothing left of it to read, I felt lost and sad. While some stories are longer than others, it didn’t feel like any of them outstayed their welcome. It's a book that's a pleasure to dwell in, a delicious experience to dip in and out of I took to only reading it before bed, because it felt built of pre-dream sweetness, of that familiar, childhood longing for adventures that feel like home. Ghost Stories for Starless Nights is an easy anthology to read. What did work for me, deeply and wholesomely and movingly, was the whole affect of the book, its warmth, its helpless love of storytelling and beautiful, polished fables. Morgenstern does build a lovely, haunting, suggestive mythography, but it ends up competing with her narrative in ways that didn't quite work for me. To protect his adopted home, hell have to return to the city of his birth, the evil City of Spiders. Later on, I kept expecting the story to resolve in a satisfyingly meta way - which it refused to do, instead setting up a straightforward villain and a plot that developed too late in the narrative to encompass the layers and layers of pleasurable mystery. Return to the City of SpidersStill reeling from the death of Wulfgar, Drizzt is allowed little time to grieve, for dark elves are massing in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall. What did work for me, deeply and wholesomely and movingly, was the whole affect of the book, its warmth, its helpless love of storytelling and beautiful, polished fables.Įarly on, this is exciting, and did indeed succeed in making me feel like I was playing a puzzle game, being guided through a beautiful labyrinth of harbours and honey and bees. ![]() 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. a book cover for the novel steams silver by r a salvatore and stephen c. ![]() Starless Night is the second book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the eighth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Starless Sea Author Erin Morgenstern Driven by their love and loyalty to the dwarves of Mithral Hall, they will engage the dark elves in combat and willingly lay down their lives. Legacy of the Drow: The Legacy, Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, Passage to Dawn Collectors Edition (Forgotten Realms: Legends of Drizzt). Mismatched paperback set: different cover graphics NO BOX. But Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions are no strangers to such dire circumstances. STARLESS NIGHT (Forgotten Realms: Legacy of the Drow) by Salvatore, R.A. For Drizzt, a rogue elf with a price on his head, stepping foot inside the city is no small risk-it’s certain death. Nicknamed the City of Spiders, Menzoberranzan is one of the most dangerous places in the already perilous Underdark. and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. It was originally published as a single issue. Starless Night (Drizzt 3: Legacy of the Drow) by Salvatore, R.A. To keep his adopted home and family safe, Drizzt must now return to the dreadful drow city of his birth. The Legend of Drizzt: Starless Night (original title: Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Volume 8: Starless Night) is the graphic novel version of R.A. Dark elves are gathering in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall, hell-bent on destruction. ![]() In the first part of the book, Drizzt Do'Urden leaves Mithral Hall directed to Menzoberranzan. It was later reissued as book eight of the Legend of Drizzt series. Though Drizzt is still reeling from the death of his barbarian friend, he is allowed little time to grieve. Starless Night is the second book in the Legacy of the Drow series by R.A. To protect his friends from harm, Drizzt Do’Urden returns to the place he left behind long ago-the City of Spiders
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