Somewhere Beyond the Sea

 Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune, 416 pages.

Linus Baker as found a home and a family with Arthur Parnassus and the weird and wonderful children of Marsyas Island. He hasn't looked back since he left DICOMY, but the organization isn't done with them yet. Arthur is summoned to testify about his experiences of abuse in a DICOMY orphanage, where he learns that the new head of the organization is a polite, respectable woman who also happens to be a bigot very dedicated to destroying the home he has so painstakingly built for himself. 

It was a real pleasure to get back to these wonderful characters. That being said, I didn't like this book quite as well as the first. It feels like while the first was very focused on character interactions, this one was more speeches than anything else. This makes an amount of sense, as the first book was about finding a home, and the sequel is more about fighting for it. Overall I would say this book is still very good, and important, but the reading of it is a very different experience than the first book in the series.