2024/002: The House in the Cerulean Sea — T J Klune

2024/002: The House in the Cerulean Sea — T J Clune

“He’s here to make sure I don’t burn anyone alive with the power of my mind and then consume their souls from their smoking carcass.”
“Rock on, little dude,” J-Bone said, offering a high five which Lucy gladly accepted. “I mean, I hope that doesn’t happen to me, but you do you.” [p. 263]

Linus Baker is forty years old. He lives in a city where it always rains. He has a house, an unfriendly cat, an intrusive neighbour and a substantial record collection, and he works for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. One day, amid the usual workplace miseries and conflicts, he's called upstairs by Extremely Upper Management and tasked to investigate a remote orphanage run by a mysterious chap named Arthur Parnassus.( Read more... )