The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune is a warm, funny novel that both makes you rethink the way you see others and also see the world with more compassion. The book is in the perspective of Linus Baker, a 40-something year old is a caseworker at the fictional DICOMY, a shady government administration satirizing one in the real world. He, weary of his work life and love life (he lives alone with his cat, Calliope), is assigned an evaluation of Marsyas Island Orphanage. But he realizes upon his arrival that the orphanage is for... special children, who have been shunned from the rest of the world. Will Linus grow to love the six children and the man who cares for them? Or will their lives go up in flames?