A review by nooweljayy
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

if you're looking for a comforting, light story about finding the pursuit of one's own happiness through the power of fostered familial love, or maybe you're in the "lost in the world and needs assurance" phase in life like me, or even just a story that reeks of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children/Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with tablespoons of gay and heartwarming and a pinch of 1984... don't you wish you were here? read this book? personally, i hope so. 

full review on Goodreads (copy and paste the link): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5090552992

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Abandonment