Reviews tagging 'Death'

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

61 reviews

kriziny's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

It is a contemporary fantasy fiction with LGBTQ+ representation. Just like V.E Schwab has said it feels like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket, but add to this little sparkles of magic. 

In this book you follow Linus Baker who works as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, one day he will get a classified assignment from Extremely Upper Management. This assignment will change his life in a way he didn't expected it. The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place and realizing how much that family has changed him. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, and Death of parent

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

leighmayon's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Cannibalism, and Murder

jfield351's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

This was truly a wonderful, lovely, heartwarming book and I did shed a few tears at the end! I read it from the 23rd-26th of Feb and was instantly amazed and relieved that the author - TJ Klune - can write. As in, can write wonderfully. This book is going in my dymocks challenge checklist for ‘book with 5+ words in the title’. The title was perfect and somehow summed up the whole book very well. I was reading the book right up until I had to leave home and I had about 10 pages left, and when i got home i immediately finished it because I had to know what happened. I absolutely loved all the main characters, they were written so well with so much depth and I rooted for them a lot. It was just so well written, I felt what Linus felt. It’s one of the only books I’ve ever read where I didn’t care that the ending was predictable. I was also gripped when tense moments came about such as

arthur taking linus down to the cellar, linus fighting with Upper management and linus returning to the island

. The twist that

arthur was a phoenix that had abused in this orphanage

was sad and interesting but wasn’t as shocking as some other twists i’ve read. Obviously loved the epilogue that was super cute. None of the book was cheesy at all, it was genuinely so wonderful. This book was all over booktok and so it was really hyped up for me and it was well worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, and Abandonment

faranae's review

funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

The book handles a wide range of potentially difficult topics with the lightest and gentlest of touches, so I think most of them will not pose a problem. However, Lucy's a bit morbid and has "spiders in his brain", and these elements recur frequently. There is a past confinement incident that is described in some detail towards the end of the book, but it is softened by

knowing the person it happened to has already mostly healed from that trauma.

winters_night's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, and Death of parent

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

strange_little_ranger's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

nextkt's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Fuck capitalism I just want to raise a group of troubled kids on an island with my beautiful boyfriend

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, and Xenophobia

emhunsbaker's review

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, and Death