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The House in the Cerulean Sea
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Start date
May 1, 2021
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May 21, 2021
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Book of the Month Club
Why we're reading this
This will be our May 2021 read!

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What Members Thought

Jordan Lombard
A sweet, barely there gay romance with a group of super awesome magical kids.
Ari
Jan 07, 2021 rated it liked it
Shelves: mm-romance, fantasy, lgbt
Yes, it's a lovely and heartwarming story with adorable characters, a man living a boring life finally popped his bubble and living his new-exciting life!

But where's the "destroy a home or watch the world burn"?
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Gerald Sessions
Jul 10, 2022 rated it it was amazing
A big surprise I loved this book. It caught your interest from the start and after the children were add you can’t not read.
I listened to the audio version on a trip and it was well read.
The surprise was this was a sweet love story on many levels. the story is about right and wrong and stepping out of your comfort zone to change some thing that is wrong.
Anne
Jun 01, 2020 rated it liked it
While I'm in my fifties, I think 7 and up would find something in this book. It presents some difficult topics, such as xenophobia, in a light way so that you don't feel beaten down with sadness or despair. I liked the variety of non-human characters. I felt that the backstory could have been fleshed out some more. I also found the story very, very predictable.

Got my copy from Overdrive courtesy of my public library.

Apparently, I liked the blurb so much I also requested and received a copy from
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Lisa
May 12, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Cynthia
May 05, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Cynthia
Feb 09, 2025 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Tracy
May 04, 2020 marked it as to-read
Anne Barwell
Jun 14, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: library
Becky
Feb 12, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: m-m, fantasy, read-in-2021
Venecia
Jun 22, 2020 marked it as to-read
Leanne
Jul 29, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Cally73
Sep 02, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Sylvia
Aug 04, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Lyn
Nov 29, 2020 marked it as to-read
Juli
Dec 10, 2020 marked it as to-read
Shelves: owned, owned-kindle
Christina
Dec 12, 2020 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Kristie
Jan 19, 2021 rated it really liked it
Rie
Jan 18, 2021 marked it as to-read
Lady*M
May 02, 2021 marked it as to-read
DareDevil
Jul 27, 2021 rated it liked it
Shelves: fantasy
Pwnn
Dec 01, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy, mm-gay, children
kathleen
Mar 08, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Tracy
Mar 08, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Melanie Walker
Sep 22, 2022 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Brittney
Sep 25, 2022 marked it as to-read
Bennett
Feb 27, 2023 marked it as to-read
Shelves: on-hold-from-hpl
2mmommy
Jul 13, 2023 marked it as monica-next-to-be-read
Tracy
Aug 05, 2024 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition