I was very surprised at the end of December when a few book club members said they would love to put THE STARLESS SEA in the vote for when I hosted the meeting in January. Even after sending a synopsis of the fantasy novel, it got the most votes. I did not want to read this book. I made sure everyone who voted for it planned to read it (it may have involved a threatening e-mail three weeks before the meeting about how this was a 500+ page book so they better have started already