Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, in which we take a look at upcoming releases we’re super excited about.
Today’s selection and book I’m excitedly awaiting is:
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
(The House in the Cerulean Sea #2)
by TJ Klune
Adult Fiction – Fantasy – Romance – LGBTQIA+
September 10th, 2024
Goodreads
Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges!
A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.
He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.
Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.
But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.
And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.
Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.
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.
The House in the Cerulean Sea is one of my all-time favorite reads. So am I excited that there is a sequel coming and I’ll get to go back to Marsyas island? ABSOLUTELY!
Tell Me:
Will you be reading this book?
I haven’t read the first book, but I know so many people love this author! Happy reading!
Thanks!
I’m both excited and nervous because I loved the first book so much. I almost don’t want a sequel.
Yes, I definitely feel so nervous too! It’s like everything I wanted, but also I don’t want my perfect feelings about the first book to change…
I hope you end up loving it, Lindsey!
Thanks, Stephanie!
I’m excited but nervous!!
That definitely sums it up perfectly!
This sounds like something I’d enjoy reading but it might keep me up all night. Lol!
So true! 🙂
I love T.J. Klune–such cozy reads! I might need this energy in my new year.
It’s definitely the perfect cozy energy 🙂