House in the Cerulean Sea, The

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And that’s kind of the theme of the whole book is, is to raise your voice for those who don’t have one. And then at the end, what should have been sweet touching moments, I was just ready for the book to end. He only does his job at the end of the day, going back his lonely house for arguing his noisy neighbor who tries to matchmake him with his accountant relative, playing music and talking with his grumpy cat which is his only real friend in this world.

Management hires him for a top secret mission: they want him to investigate Marysas Island Orphanage where six extremely dangerous kids reside: a gnome, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, a sprite and an baby Lucy Morningstar! For the first time, Linus breaks his all rules, empathizing with these kids, opening his heart to them.This is an amazing YA fantasy focused around found family with a heavy central theme of kindness, and if that sounds like something you would enjoy, I think you'll love this book. i won't tell you how you should feel about this, but i think that taking the unbearable trauma (a trauma that included not just the murder of a culture but also murder in a quite literal sense) of real-world Native children and turning that into a happy-go-lucky tale of how Hate Is Bad but the fantastical equivalent of those disgusting and reprehensible nonfiction orphanages is good. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook. My thoughts are all cerulean, now that I have read TJ Klune’s wonderful novel, The House in the Cerulean Sea.

It remained fuzzy until I stumbled across the Sixties Scoop, something I’d never heard of before, something I’d never been taught in school (I’m American, by the way). There is darkness at the heart of the DICOMY, and though Linus is part of the organisation he has no idea what happens once he has filed his reports and done what has been asked of him.We don't know why or how what happened to the gnomes even though one of the main children in the story is a gnome herself. Oh, it's a sea, not an ocean but the ocean is an ocean in the fairytale) seemingly keeps the living creatures (I meant that) in it separated from the rest of the world (sometimes I feel the word world is so undramatic. TJ Klune is extremely good at setting the scene for the reader and the description is so vivid that I immediately felt drawn to the island of Marsayas and the people who live there. The House In The Cerulean Sea is not a novel I would normally read as I often struggle with books in the fantasy genre.