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The House in the Cerulean Sea

De : TJ Klune
Lu par : Daniel Henning
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"Daniel Henning is a great narrator for this quirky and theatrical audiobook.... Henning revels in a cornucopia of characters, diving into nuanced voices and colorful moments with accents and growls, tone shifts and whispers.... This is definitely a title for those who enjoy fantasy stories replete with gnomes and witches and all in between." (AudioFile Magazine)

Lambda Literary Award-winning author TJ Klune's breakout contemporary fantasy

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family is yours.

Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year - 2020

Amazon.com Best Books of the Year - 2020

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

"1984 meets The Umbrella Academy with a pinch of Douglas Adams thrown in." (Gail Carriger, New York Times best-selling author of Soulless)

©2020 TJ Klune (P)2020 Macmillan Audio Classiques Contemporain Fantasy Humoristique Littérature et fiction Science-fiction et fantasy Urbain et paranormal
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    ALA Alex Awards Winner (Adult for Young Adults), 2021

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    Highly recommended, beautifully written, wonderful performance and reading by Daniel Henning. A gentle reminder of the important things in life.

    What a wonderful book

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    As an attempt at cultural assimilation, thousands of indigenous children were taken away from their families from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century, resulting in the creation of a network of boarding schools (Canadian Indian residential school system) administred by Christian churches. See also the Sixties Scoop period, where the same thing occurred in the hope that the children would end up being adopted into white families. This is a super dubious side of Canadian history and it was obviously extremely traumatic, abusive and just plain horrible for these communities. And apparently, this was the source material for this book, which... complicates my opinion.

    Sometimes, for whatever reason, a group of people (usually gouvernments) create a hostile environment for the marginalised others because we are led to believe they pose a threat to the well-being of the first group, when the truth is that they just want to coexist peacefully. At its core, I think the message for this book is that this type of perception is misguided and wrong, which in itself is a good message to spread around anyway. Kudos to the amazing narration by Daniel Henning. I was dazzled, thank you very much.

    Having said that, what the characters represent doesn't sit that well with me. Children with magical abilities in orphanages = monsters, you say? Uh oh. On the surface level though, and despite its predictability at times, "The House in the Cerulea Sea" was a super cozy read. On the other hand, it has also been thought-provoking, as it raises a couple of questions: can a community's trauma (here a cultural genocide) be packaged up into a fluffy novel, and is it that author's story to tell anyway? I tried to take the plot at face value, but I also now know things I can't unknow. Still, I enjoyed myself. I don't think anything is 100% good or bad, per se, but maybe let's try to avoid being insensitive when we tell stories or avoid telling them at all, when it's none of our business. At the end of the day, however, I think it's mainly up to the reader to decide.

    I liked it but I have some things to say too

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    Une histoire toute simple avec des enfants et une administration. ça peut paraître étrange mais ça vaut vraiment la peine.

    Merveilleusement simple, émouvant et magique

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    I'd already read the book a couple years ago, and absolutely adored it, so when I decided to re-read it I thought I might as well give the audiobook a try. The narrator's reading felt a little odd at first, but it became rather endearing as the story went on. The emotion in his voice in the last chapter before the epilogue made the scene even better, which I didn't think was possible.

    I'm definitely going to come back to this again and again.

    A delightful book

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    livre et performance au top, un plaisir à écouter. j'ai adoré l'histoire et suis très triste de quitter les personnages

    incroyable

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    Great humour, magical creatures, actually good kid characters, beautiful setting, a queer love story.
    The ending is a little predictable but when that's the only bad thing about a book I'd say go for it!!

    what else could you possibly want?

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    Une performance très bien orchestrée avec une pluralité de voix distinctes et reconnaissables. Une belle histoire, d’autant plus agréable que j’ai pu, pour une des rares fois dans toutes mes lectures/écoutes, m’identifier aux deux personnages adultes principaux car ils sont plus âgés, dans une vie professionnelle bien installée, etc. Ça ne rendait le tout que plus excellent !

    Excellent!

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    That was soo Nice ! I loved it !
    Made me so happy to have queer characters in such a wholesome story
    Just I passed such a good moment listening to it

    Magical !

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