House in the Cerulean Sea, The

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And if, regrettably, you have misplaced your heart somewhere on this treacherous road known as life. Klune leads a trail of breadcrumbs throughout the novel that hints at something more that we aren’t privy to until the story catapults towards its climax (and what that is is something I had NOT seen coming).

To travel to a clandestine orphanage on Marsyas Island, where six highly magical, highly dangerous children live. He can't let his heart be broken by the various banshees, dryads, fairies, werewolves and other magical children he meets during his inspections, many of whom have gone from foster home to foster home and suffered untold years of abuse just for being who they are.Love and kindness virtually radiate from Klune’s words and ever so tenderly spiral around you like a soft, warm blanket. It’s at this Island Orphanage that we meet the rest of our cast in the form of six magical children (a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist), the charming (and handsome) caretaker Arthur Parnassus, and a lovely lady named Zoe Chapelwhite who is more than she initially appears. I completely get the hype around the book, and have to say it is one of my favorite reads of the year so far. It sucker-punched me in the found family feels, it carried me along with a slow, gentle romance, and it breathed life into my heart with the protective love the book is steeped with.

He works for the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, and is given a highly classified assignment by Extremely Upper Management (who are as stiff and stuffy as they sound). I have a particular fondness for both Sal and Lucy, two of the children that have wormed their way into my heart and stuck with me for weeks after I finished this novel. and as far as i can tell in the 23 years i’ve lived in this yucky world, there is no business trip that will deus ex machina your sorry ass into your place and your purpose and your people.

This story is cozy, adorable, and has a wonderful message about overcoming differences and I would recommend it to anyone, it's that good. The characterizations of the various children were well-written and I felt sympathy for all of them. These children are different and, therefore, for some reason, must be treated as outcasts by those who are considered normal. Linus, Arthur and the kids could not have been more different, but they all formed the same desperate plea in their minds: to be seen, to be loved, to reach and to be reached for.