Can’t Wait Wednesday – SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA by T.J. Klune
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. It is a meme that I have loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
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My selection for this week is Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune. I had no idea there was going to be a sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea so this news just made my month when I heard it. It’s still almost a year out but I think this is one of those books that deserves as much early buzz as possible and I just cannot wait to be back in this world again and to get Arthur’s story.
SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA by T.J. Klune
by Tor Books
Publication Date: September 10, 2024
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.
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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂
I was surprised by this announcement too! I still haven’t read the first book, but I’d love to catch up before this comes out😁
I immediately started singing that song to myself when I read the title!
Great choice💜
Hooray for an unexpected sequel! I haven’t read anything by Klune beyond Wolfsong.
I didn’t even know there was going to be a sequel! I will most likely be reading it.
I haven’t yet read The House in the Cerulean Sea, but I do want to. I really liked Under the Whispering Door. I hope this one will be as good as I hear The House in the Cerulean Sea was!
YESSSSSSSSS!
Here’s hoping this is another hit for you
WHAT!! So excited. Thanks for the heads up.
I am so excited for this one too!