Cloying cerulean counterfeit

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


This is not a positive review. I am leaving it to balance out the many rave reviews, because I have a different opinion. It is my opinion versus hundreds who loved the book, and hence unimportant but people like me should not waste their time on this book. So if you hate saccharine, cloying fairytales with an obvious romance, dont read this book. Before I read this, I was under the illusion that it was a book for adults, but now I am confused. It is so childish and condescending, I gave myself wrinkles screwing up my face in disgust. Also, and IDK if I am alone in this, why is there a cat? What is it for? I assumed it would turn out to be magical or something, but no, it just has a cool name. This is not a good reason to include a totally pointless character. I knew the end of the book after about six pages and that is generally why I don't read romance. I'm not sure why I ploughed through this book. I think I hoped it would get better or stray from the 'don't be mean, it's okay to fail, Linus is fat, Arthur is tortured, theme. More fool me. Two stars for a good idea, minus three for cloying, saccharine, fakeness. Yuck.



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