And the Ocean Was Our Sky, (Hardcover)

from chrisblocker

Apparently this Patrick Ness guy is pretty big amongst readers of Young Adult books. This is the first time I've read any of his work. Ness, in an obvious attempt to hook me as a reader, decided to put a finely illustrated whale on the cover. Seriously, every well drawn whale cover ends up on my ...

from BillieBook

This was beautiful and heartbreaking and mythic.

from widdersyns

A wonderful concept. I didn't enjoy it as much as other Patrick Ness books, but it's just so very different from anything else he's written that it's hard to compare. Beautiful art as well.

from infjsarah

I started to listen to this as an audiobook but soon decided I wanted to read it instead. Glad I did. The illustrations add to the story. It's a short book - only took me about 90 mins to read. But as usual Ness has something to say about humanity through fantasy. Here it is our unfortunate abili...

from villemezbrown

This fantasy inversion of Moby-Dick is just too bizarre and too poorly thought out for me. Whales are intelligent enough to build their own underwater ships, cities, and weapons. They carry and fire harpoon guns as they hunt humans in their ongoing war against whalers. They create chemical proces...