The Cerulean by Amy Ewing
Published by HarperTeen on January 29th 2019
ISBN: 0062489984
Pages: 496
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“The Cerulean” is a Young Adult fantasy novel by Amy Ewing. It starts out by introducing us to the Ceruleans, who are an all-female people with silvery skin, blue hair and magical blue blood. They live in a city on a cloud that is magically tethered to the planet below. Every couple hundred years, the Ceruleans leave the planet they are tethered to so that they can travel through space to find a new planet. Sera, a teenaged Cerulean, feels like she does not fit in with everyone else. She is chosen by their god to be sacrificed so that the tether can be broken. When she jumps off of the cloud and falls to the planet below, she is supposed to die, her blood magic sacrificed to destroy the tether. She does NOT die and has no idea what happened. The Ceruleans above must figure out what went wrong, while Sera must find a way back to her city.

Fantasy, mystery, and potential betrayal make this book a quick read, though the parts set in the Cerulean city were more interesting than the parts down on the planet, which at times felt pretty slow. A must-buy for Young Adult collections where fantasy is popular.

Reviewed by Kate Radke, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook.