I've Been Reading...

The House in the Cerulean Sea for the last month and a half and I'm having such a hard time with it. I like the story and the characters but something about it doesn't make me excited to pick it up. I would've DNF'd it but one of my friends really wants me to read it so I'm powering through. I do think a film/tv adaptation would eat. Picturing Lee Pace or Jonathan Bailey as Arthur....