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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
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.
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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- Maxine I.
- 30-09-24
a nice follow up
I really enjoyed this book and was sad that it's over, however as few have said I feel the twist didn't really fit and wished TJ had gone with a different approach to the ending. It felt like a "oh. it's long enough, now it must end and this is the only idea I have to do it". other than that I really enjoyed it. I've read the first book twice and also listened to it twice. I feel ill maybe give this one more listen to and be done. I'll forever read the first one though. it's my favourite book.
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- Steven Ballinger
- 04-10-24
A great sequel
Loved Daniel’s performance and how he voiced the characters. TJ Kune continues the story weaving in new and developing existing characters. Laugh out loud moments paired with tears of joy. Such a great book
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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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- Kat
- 15-09-24
perfect sequel
Every sequel is a gamble. Especially if the first book was meant to be a standalone, but this book does the near impossible and is a perfect sequel. It grows the characters we know and love and gives us new ones.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-09-24
it's a nice sequel
For most part it has the same sweet energy as the first book. But at times it get's a bit too hysterical. Overall: sweet and funny.
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- M. Kimber
- 18-09-24
Another lovely book from TJ Klune
Loved it. From the characters to the storyline and its inclusivity. Will listen again most definitely
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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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- 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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- Mike
- 18-09-24
Ok but missing the simple low stakes magic of the first
It's not the book I expected. It wasn't the book I wanted. It's not a book I think has been done well. And the studio performance has, occasionally, been too much. I don't mind going for it and committing to a performance, but at times it felt like someone trying to convince everyone that THIS SCENE IS JUST SO EMOTIONAL AND I'M EMOTING SO MUCH. Then the ending was just... Too much. Both where it went with the main story and how sincere and (for me) sappy, overly saccharin, it got at the end. It felt underserved and like the book didn't know what it wanted to be.
Disappointing after how much I loved the first, but I felt it moved very far away from that low stakes, smile inducing, heartwarming cosy read. I hope others can find joy in it but it wasn't for me.
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