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Linus Baker works for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's sent on a secret assignment to review the orphanage run by Arthur Parnassus. There are six unique children living at the orphanage, including the son of the devil. Arthur has spent all his life living by the rules working in a drab office with no windows when he's suddenly sent to this island full of color and life. I love this book. All the main characters were great, including the children. I laughed, I cried and I thoroughl
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This book is an utter delight, more soon.
a beautiful queer fairytale with the kind of happy ending we should all be lucky enough to get.
I love it when a book makes you fall in love with the antichrist… oh wait, we don’t use that word around here.
I was apprehensive about this one, unsure if I would like it, but I was pretty much madly in love with it at about 25% in. This really is a great book. There are so many gems within these pages. It has a charming cast of characters. The children at the “orphanage” are brilliant. Lucy is my favorite. And of course, there's Arthur. “Always Arthur.”
It was an utter delight to watch stuffy Li ...more
I was apprehensive about this one, unsure if I would like it, but I was pretty much madly in love with it at about 25% in. This really is a great book. There are so many gems within these pages. It has a charming cast of characters. The children at the “orphanage” are brilliant. Lucy is my favorite. And of course, there's Arthur. “Always Arthur.”
It was an utter delight to watch stuffy Li ...more
I listened to the audiobook of this one with my eleven-year-old. We both loved this story, loved these characters, and now want to read all the other books by this author. I don't know how this author managed to write so many books before this one and I never heard of any of them, then suddenly this book is everywhere.
Everyone loves magical children, but this take on especially outcast children--a wyvern, a large boy who changes into a small dog, the anti-christ (literally the son of the devil), ...more
Everyone loves magical children, but this take on especially outcast children--a wyvern, a large boy who changes into a small dog, the anti-christ (literally the son of the devil), ...more
It was perhaps a bit preachy but I couldn't help but love the characters and the narrator of the audio book was delightful.
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This is a bit of an odd mix as it's an adult book told like a children's tale, especially in the audio version. I was a little iffy at the beginning, but it won me over with the laugh out loud silly moments and heartwarming story.
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Jul 04, 2020
Carrie
marked it as to-read
Dec 30, 2020
Cora
rated it
it was amazing
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Mar 25, 2021
Natasha
marked it as to-read
Apr 09, 2021
Natalya
marked it as to-read
Nov 17, 2021
Susan
marked it as new-books-to-buy
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Dec 09, 2022
Slayermel
marked it as to-read
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Jan 23, 2023
Kendra
marked it as to-read
