Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges!
A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.
He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.
Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.
But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.
And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.
Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.
Genre: Fantasy; LGBT
I had been waiting for this book ever since I finished The House in the Cerulean Sea. This one started a little slow for me, but the characters were just as charming as I remembered and I was soon absorbed in the story once again. There is something about the heartwarming found-family dynamics and the children with all their quirks that just pulls me in and won’t allow me to put the book down. Klune combines that with some biting social commentary about the shadow of prejudice and the ways lifelong trauma can sink into a person’s bones. As a sequel, this book was a good one for me. Once I got back into the story of these amazing characters, I had a hard time putting the book down. This series has been like a warm hug for me I give this book 4 stars.