Hello friends! Welcome to our discussion of Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune. This discussion is part of our 2024 Holiday Book Exchange. This year is a little different because we both chose the same book! Neither of us got the chance to read this book this year but we were both too excited to wait any longer. This book is the sequel to House in the Cerulean Sea, which is a personal favorite read for both of us. We are so ready for this adventure to continue!
Content Warning!!! Before reading this book please be aware it contains situations and subjects related to: violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and mental abuse.
Synopsis:
"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." - synopsis from the hardback edition of Somehwere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune.
We loved House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, so we are extremely excited for the next book in these chronicles!
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