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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- J. Yates
- 01-11-24
A story based in bullying
as much as I loved the first book, I couldn't get through this one.
let me explain... I hate stories where bullys with power get to operate unchecked. where the wrongs in the world are not resolved.
I know it makes stories more realistic (as humans are evil at times) but like the cruelty in the HP uniterf this story attempted to make me listen to unchecked cruelty.
it was so triggering for me that I had to read a synopsis and learn that this would go on throughout the book until the very end.
I love the writing and the characters, and the narration is sublime - but like courtroom drama episodes of shows like star trek... having a horrible experience for most of the story and end with a quick "ha ha ha we win" conclusion isn't for me.
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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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