Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Henning
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By:
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TJ Klune
About this listen
A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.
The No. 1 New York Times-bestselling sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea.
*Winner of the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Fantasy*
Arthur Parnassus has built a good life on the ashes of a bad one. He’s headmaster at an orphanage for magical children, on a peculiar island, assisted by love-of-his-life Linus Baker. And together, they’ll do anything to protect their extraordinary and powerful charges.
However, when Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself fighting for those under his care. It’s also a fight for the better future that all magical people deserve. Then when a new magical child joins their island home, Arthur knows they’ve reached breaking point. The child finds power in calling himself a monster, a name Arthur has tried so hard to banish to protect his children. Challenged from within and without, their volatile family might grow stronger. Or everything Arthur loves could fall apart.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller w/c 16 September 2024
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- Sophie
- 22-09-24
Doesn’t beat the first book
Nice to learn more about the characters old and new, some lovely moments and really enjoyed the deep topics covered. Felt like the story went a bit sideways at time, I wasn’t sure what the story was/where it was going
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- GC
- 30-12-24
Loved David’s story.
Loved the first book but this isn’t nearly as good. So some that it is spoiled. Really disliked the attack on JK Rowling. Not necessary!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-09-24
Sadly didn't live up to The House in the Cerulean Sea
I loved the first book, so my expectations for this sequel were high.
Sadly I didn't feel that it hit the same level, and the narration was the most overly emotional thing I've ever listened to, it felt exaggerated and several times I felt that it was completely misplaced.
Honestly struggled to get through it
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- StaceyG
- 15-09-24
A modern day fairytale promoting kindness to those different from ourselves
A lovely sequel story featuring the original main characters.
The plot is simple with light and heavy themes, the characters are well developed, and the narrator does a good job with the different voices.
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- sally k
- 26-10-24
Magical!
This is a beautifully written and narrated tale of magic, love, adversity, diversity and family. A wonderful and satisfying sequel to The House on the Cerulean Sea.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-09-24
Good story, weird performance
A nice continuation of the formar book, though, in my opinion not equally top notch. It was absolutely enjoyable and I did like it a lot, but Cerulean Sea is my fave out of these two stories. I liked the narrator (same as this story) better in Cerulean Sea, too. I had issues from time to time during this story with how he chose to read some parts. It was, at times, quite hysterical, which lead to some cringe on my part. Sometimes it was a bit over emotional in places and it didn't quite go with the tone. Overall, would recommend but I really want to reread it for myself, book in hand!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-02-25
one of the best books I ever read. it will stay with me.
as a trans person. Thank you. Your books are incredible and hope inspiring. It is needed oh so much. Thank you for healing me a tiny bit with your words.
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- Nat
- 13-01-25
Enjoyed the first book but this one not so much
I like the boogie man character & the voice is funny but I found some of narration a little to theatrical in certain parts. The voices overall were funny but the descriptive writing was sometimes narrated with so much emotion in the voice it sounded like a Victorian melodrama & was somewhat unnecessary & unrelated to the text. I thought the story got lost in the political message & felt more like a rant than an imaginative tale & I found myself wanting to get lost in the story but unable to due to the distraction of the political themes. Perhaps this author should write a non fiction book regarding all the messages they have for the world. It might be a better book.
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- Gruffalo
- 21-12-24
Let.down.
This sadly is not.as.good as.the firat one. The new yeti character is annoying, the chqracterisation.more kne dimensional.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-10-24
Loved it
I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone who listened to the first one.
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