Barbarius wants to read The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives …
Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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12% complete! Barbarius has read 5 of 40 books.
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives …
Nobody wanted to buy her stuff after Vam went under, though. All they wanted was that Twilight bull*. *ing vampires.
— Pwning Tomorrow by Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Cory Doctorow, and 20 others (Page 204)
Even future dystopias hate Twilight.
The Great Crusade that has taken humanity into the stars continues. The Emperor of mankind has handed the reins of …
I know this is nothing revelatory to say of the first book in a 50-something volume series, but it felt like it was just the start of a bigger story, without a lot of resolution. Which is fine, and I guess I expected.
Having NO prior knowledge of the Warhammer 40k universe, I felt like a lot was going over my head. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I didn't like the story, I just felt that a lot of it was referencing things the significance of which I wasn't aware of.
I've read that the first 3-5 stories should be read together as one arc. They're cheap and short enough that I will probably get the second one at some point soon.
A Horus Heresy Novel - Book 1
After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at …
@ben_hr it's such a good series! I would also HIGHLY recommend Saga, which Vaughn went on to do afterwards. I would actually rate Saga as the one of, if not the, best comic series I've ever read.
Okay, that was excellent (as usual) but now I'm so unsure as to what's going to happen! What I thought was going to be the end/final climax of the entire series happened about two-thirds of the way through this compendium... And there's still two more to go! Where are we going with this!? So much unknown! So exciting!