Somewhere Beyond the Sea - Lecturas Radicales

416 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 2024 por Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-88120-5

(2 reseñas)

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 headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous 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. And 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; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island’s sprite; 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 …

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 headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous 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. And 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; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island’s sprite; 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 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.

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Sylvia reseñó Somewhere Beyond the Sea de TJ Klune

Okay, I liked one of the characters, but the rest...?

1 estrella

Basically, T.J. wrote the first book in the series (the house in the cerulean sea) again, but without the magical joy it brought.

In the first book, an inspector comes to the island, and the caretaker of six magical kids and the inspector fall in love. It's such a heartwarming book and I loved it so much.

In the second book, an inspector who reminds me of Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter books (oh irony) comes to the island and, well, so much misery ensues.

I'm well aware of T.J.'s beef with JK Rowling, and I feel like this book was written as a complaint against her, not as a sequel to a book I loved so much.

There is no heart in this book, because it feels like it was written in anger. T.J. calling himself the anti JKR doesn't help me change that thought.

I wish he …

Basically, T.J. wrote the first book in the series (the house in the cerulean sea) again, but without the magical joy it brought.

In the first book, an inspector comes to the island, and the caretaker of six magical kids and the inspector fall in love. It's such a heartwarming book and I loved it so much.

In the second book, an inspector who reminds me of Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter books (oh irony) comes to the island and, well, so much misery ensues.

I'm well aware of T.J.'s beef with JK Rowling, and I feel like this book was written as a complaint against her, not as a sequel to a book I loved so much.

There is no heart in this book, because it feels like it was written in anger. T.J. calling himself the anti JKR doesn't help me change that thought.

I wish he had written a manifesto or something, and not a sequel that ruins the first book for me.

Sam reseñó Somewhere Beyond the Sea de TJ Klune

A worthy successor, but it has its problems

3 estrellas

While I really enjoyed this book and it still had a lot of what made "The House in the Cerulean Sea" so enjoyable, I didn't find the ending particularly compelling. While the the trans allegory is great, I found the contradiction between the earlier chapters where they're having to convince Lucy that taking the easy way out isn't helpful and will be a hollow victory (he wants to use his power to remove free will and force everyone to accept them), and the end where a queen unilaterally uses force to impose her will on the town, which amounts to the same thing, felt a bit jarring. Surely the point of the early chapters was that the correct way is solidarity and community organizing, not force, but then they end up doing the exact thing the non-magical peoples fear? Unclear exactly what was being said here. That said, I suppose …

While I really enjoyed this book and it still had a lot of what made "The House in the Cerulean Sea" so enjoyable, I didn't find the ending particularly compelling. While the the trans allegory is great, I found the contradiction between the earlier chapters where they're having to convince Lucy that taking the easy way out isn't helpful and will be a hollow victory (he wants to use his power to remove free will and force everyone to accept them), and the end where a queen unilaterally uses force to impose her will on the town, which amounts to the same thing, felt a bit jarring. Surely the point of the early chapters was that the correct way is solidarity and community organizing, not force, but then they end up doing the exact thing the non-magical peoples fear? Unclear exactly what was being said here. That said, I suppose there's nothing wrong with a feel good narrative where you can just punch all the bigots in the face too, it just felt out of place with the rest of the book.