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The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)

T.J. Klune

Start date: March 1, 2021

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Aug 06, 2024 Kim rated it really liked it

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I really liked this book. I can’t believe I slept on it when it kept being recommended to me!

Linus is a peach and such a great example of the diligent US work force, the pieces that keep society moving without questioning. But then you add in children and magic and the whole story flips and it’s just so wonderful.

I highly recommend the audio.

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Jan 04, 2021 ⚜Roshni⚜ rated it it was amazing

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I can’t explain how precious this story and the characters are.

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Aug 11, 2023 Linda C rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal, romance-contemporary, young-adult

Linus Bake is a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He is summoned by Extremely Upper Management to perform a secret assignment: to go to an orphanage and do a 3 week review of the administrators and the children and make a recommendation as to whether the place should be closed, and the children moved. It is situated on an island in the ocean at the end of the train line. There he finds 6 very unusual magical children who may be too dangerous to leave as they are. And a ma ...more

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