A whale is an apprentice of a lead captain hunting for the devil, Toby Wick, the whale killer. The illustration is good. The story is a bit strange but not too strange. So will the whale choose mercy or tradition? What should it be? The saving of a man for questioning. And the danger of s...
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 to-...