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Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Harry Potter vibes set in a cozy mansion on the sea. Linus Baker works for DICOMY (Department In Charge Of Magical Youth) as a caseworker. His job is to oversee the well-being of children in government ran orphanages. Linus lives a very melancholy and lonely life, his only friends being a mischievous cat named Calliope and the sunflowers he grows outside his house. Linus would be content continuing to go through the motions of his drab life, until everything gets turned upside town when he is summoned by Extremely Upper Management and given the assignment of a lifetime. He is sent to the Marsyas Island Orphanage to ensure that it is being run properly and upholding DICOMY’s strict standards. He is chosen specifically for this task, as his reports have always been extremely detailed and detached (as it is not a case worker’s job to get emotionally involved with work.) Though he clings to DICOMY’s Rules and Regulations guide as if it were the bible, it won’t help him as he begins a journey that will change not only his life forever, but countless others as well. Marsyas Island is special, unlike any other orphanage Linus has ever been to. It houses six highly-classified children: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a shapeshifter, and the Antichrist. This eclectic group of children, along with the orphanage’s enigmatic and charming caretaker named Arthur Parnassus, will change Linus Baker forever. Join Linus on his journey of self-discovery and fall in love with a tight knit group of outcasts who make the best of their situation and unconditionally love each other through it all.

Quote: “I’m afraid I don’t have magic.” “You do, Mr. Baker. Arthur told me that there can be magic in the ordinary.”

TJ Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

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