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La casa en el mar más azul. Edición especial: Edición especial con cantos tintados by T.J. Klune, Carlos Abreu Fetter

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shelleyreadsbooks's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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: No

It took me a little to get into the book, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. This book speaks on so many levels! On a surface read, it's a delightful "collection of misunderstood children" and the grown-ups who love them. Digging deeper, it becomes a biting commentary about the society that we are on the edge of creating, where everything that has color becomes othered. "If you see something, say something" sounds very Orwellian without being heavy-handed. The play of Lucy being who he is and being so delightfully playful and loving is a story in itself. They grey at the beginning, which made it hard for me to connect to the book, was the necessary foil to everything that was to come. I am so glad that I hung in there!

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yujowheelies's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional 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: Yes

This book is charming, cozy, and a tad cliche. A bit like if the Hotel Transylvania films and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children had a colorful and gay little baby. I agree with other reviews that this book can feel a bit juvenile, but I found it's simplicity refreshing and fun, and I like that I could easily recommend this book to my younger siblings. Unfortunately, the book's discussion of marginalization is also simplistic- with a "be yourself and be nice and everything will work out" kind of approach that will make most adult readers, especially queer and/or otherwise marginalized adult readers, raise an eyebrow. However, I think it's clear this book's goal was not to present a solution to end actual racism with a depiction of Fantasy Racism(tm), and moreso offer a lighthearted and comforting story about a world where morality and issues such as these actually are a little more black & white than our world. This, of course, can still be inspiring and positive nonetheless, though it understandably may not be everyone cup of tea.

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frog_pockets's review against another edition

5.0

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

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andithinkyoulikebooks's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional hopeful 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: Yes

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joulesburn's review against another edition

3.5

funny hopeful lighthearted 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

I love the bones and the surface of this book, and I do love the characters. The mains, anyway. Any one off side characters tend to be comically bare-bones stereotypes at best. There are stakes in the background. There is the calling card of painful things to deal with and struggles, but that don't REALLY get pulled out into the light. It's as if the characters who matter have telepathy and always know the exact right thing to say to one another to be affirming in exactly the way that's needed to fizzle out any sign of conflict before it can even think about really happening.

Most moments are an opportunity for a waxing inspirational speech when the children aren't being wholesomely adorable, even in their traumas. The main character has banter debates about philosophers while his own ethical dilemmas are kept more of a specter than a struggle. I did have a good time, and see why it's so loved, but this book reads like a bowl of pure sugar with very little spice. It's a relaxing, inspiring little read where any of the trauma's have a lacy tissue and a fainting couch to keep it all very tidy and pretty.

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