2021: #65 – The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune)

I am late to this particular great-book-train, and I’m not sure there’s anything I can say about this that hasn’t already been said. This is a magical joyride full of charming characters that really can do no wrong. Linus is basically a CPS worker, but the department he works for deals specifically with magical children and Linus himself deals specifically with orphanages. He is surprised

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2020: #29 – Magic for Liars (Sarah Gailey)

Ivy Gamble is a private investigator. Normally she spends a lot of time following around cheating spouses, so when a well-dressed woman appears in her office and offers her a chance to work on a murder case, it’s tough to refuse. But there’s another wrinkle — the possible murder happened at a school for magically-inclined children where Ivy’s very magical twin sister Tabatha is a

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