Series
Cerulean Chronicles
TJ Klune · 2 novels · 2020–2024
TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea follows Linus Baker, a caseworker for a bureaucratic agency overseeing magical children, sent to investigate an orphanage whose six unusual residents, including the literal antichrist, complicate his usual detachment. Somewhere Beyond the Sea shifts to a new protagonist connected to the same island and its found family. Both books use a gentle, whimsical tone to work through themes of institutional prejudice and belonging.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Map
Cerulean Chronicles at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2020s2
Shape
Mood
Bright and calm: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 6%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Somewhere Beyond the Seadarkest · most intense
- The House in the Cerulean Seabrightest · calmest