Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles #2)
Blurb
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely-anticipated sequel to TJ Klunes The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade.
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 headmaster 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 theres the islands 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.
These books are so precious. The love, the light, the hope. Marsayas may be fictional, but it''s the type of world I hope to live in one day. Where people are free to be who they are without persecution.
*note - the prologue is missing from the book here, but is also worth reading
Absolutely love these books with all my heart. The House in the Cerulean Sea was such an eye-opener and a beautifully heartwarming book, and I didn''t think it would get any better than that, but this sequel told me otherwise. Lucy, Talia, Sal, Phee, Chauncey, Theodore, Zoe, Helen, Arthur, David. I need them all in my life. A truly truly amazing book, and how absolutely lovely are the characters. I could read them over and over and never get bored.
THIS is a MUST read!! It shows you what a real monster is, and that you can''t judge or expect someone to be what you think just because of what they are. Where you see segregation in a different form. And everyone trying to cover up for it. This is where Lucy, Sal, Talia, Phee, Chauncey, Theodore, David, Zoe, Helen, Arthur, and Linus show the world what the word monster really represents, and the words acceptance and equality really are. A truly Amazing must read.