The House in the Cerulean Sea

DNF - PG 82

Why?

To be fair, if I had bought the book, I'd probably finish it. But I got an email from my library that the book is almost due, I have two days to read over 300 pages and, for a moment, when I received my reminder, I couldn't even remember what book I had borrowed. (If I'd finish it, I'm predicting a 2 star outcome.)

That being said, I do usually like Klune's writing (I've read 3 other books of his for 4 stars each) but, usually, his book are more quirky main character being quirky and dealing with quirky people. This felt more like ‘only sane man' syndrome. I don't know how else to describe it - I just didn't like it. And the writing early on reminded me strongly of British children's books. (Like, maybe Harry Potter or even the American written Series of Unfortunate Events.)

I just don't really know how to describe it, but what I thought I would get (zany people with a sweet romance, like I've come to expect from Klune) wasn't what I got and my heart just wasn't in it.

(And it really kills me, because I thought I would love this book.)

(Side note: it took me 5 days to read barely over 80 pages.)