I listened to the audio version read by Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Bahni Turpin, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Corduner, and Jorjeana Marie and published by Books on Tape. I have a weird hang-up for books/movies/TV Shows where the framing device takes over the story and becomes its own character, if you like that sort of thing, you might love this. I can see why this book was so heavily recommended, but it wasn’t for me. It was in those chapters I was the most connected to the novel. Not just because of the narration, I love the epistolary format. Her chapters were the most interesting as Katrina Hawkins was my favorite character. I did enjoy the narration and was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice of Bahni Turpin. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a typical millennial introvert he likes video games, escapist reading, and drinking sidecars. And worse I could see the strings, the muscle of it, and that made it kind of a drag. A withdrawn graduate student embarks on an epic quest to restore balance to the world in this long-anticipated follow-up to The Night Circus (2011). He finds a book, called Sweet Sorrows, at the university library that includes a story of him finding a door when he was a child. I could see, even feel the lines in it, constantly reminding me that I was listening to a story. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student at a university in Vermont. And even though the pieces still fit together, there are chasms where it was cut. It was like Morgenstern had an idea for a story and then rather than write it, she turned it inside out and cut it into pieces. Interesting for sure, but also, afterward, the magic is gone. This book felt like a magician revealing his tricks.
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