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Just finished reading Somewhere Beyond The Sea, TJ Klune's sequel to House on The Cerulean Sea. It's so lovely, and a thinly veiled "fuck you" to JK Rowling. So I was very happy when this was the first page of his acknowledgements. I'm going to keep reading his whole body of work!
May 12, 2025, 2:11 AM
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