They hunt humans, using “their bones for tallow and soaps, their skin for sails, their meat … as bait for the vast shoals of prey.” They speak to one another and can, if taught, speak to humans in proper English. Then it gets a tad hokey.The whales, believers of prophecy, sail in ships of their own construction. ( Literally, as kids today might say.) Told by the whales, we quickly learn that the whales perceive their ocean as being above the sky, and they descend to reach the surface where the human ships are. (I'll get around to you all soon.)If you haven't already heard, And the Ocean Was Our Sky is Moby Dick turned upside down. Here I must apologize to the other whale books on my to-read list that have been there far longer than And the Ocean Was Our Sky. Seriously, every well drawn whale cover ends up on my to-read pile. Ness, in an obvious attempt to hook me as a reader, decided to put a finely illustrated whale on the cover. This is the first time I've read any of his work. Apparently this Patrick Ness guy is pretty big amongst readers of Young Adult books.
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