dracos_library 's review for:

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

3.5

adventurous emotional 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: No

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It is what it is. YA. 
YA proves to be not for me.. 

I mean - don't get me wrong - it wasn't a bad book. 
Just all the "lessons" like

When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn't mean it's no longer useful.

or 

A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.

felt like they were really meant for kids reader. Besides the fact, that one child is the literal anti-christ, is not one thing in this book that actually makes it YA. If that one child from the orphanage wouldn't have been there, this book would be a childrens book. I mean .. the head of the the department is called "extremely upper management".. 

Besides that, I actually kinda enjoyed the book. The children in the orphanage were written very cute. Linus' character developement was wholesome and the found family trope is always something I'm up for. I'm hoping, that the next book might contain more adult / adultish content and I'll be more into it.