"Why is Patrick Ness your favourite author?" I hear you ask...
Because reading his books is always an experience like no other.
It is always filled with emotion and unexpected elements that make each story unique and new in a way that a lot of popular novels I read (and love to read, don't get me wrong), don't.
And The Ocean Was Our Sky does exactly that.

4.5 ~ I have read no book quite like this one.
It was a beautiful experience that is, I'll admit, quite hard to talk about. I would only urge you to pick it up and experience it yourself.

I loved how we were told the story of whales, but in a way that felt very much like they were humans.
With ships, towns, sails and armour, they hunt men who live beneath them, in the depths of the Sky.
Except they realise, both the whales and the men, that a demon is a threat to them all and go hunting for that demon.

It was difficult at times to visualise exactly what was happening, as it is a new take on the lives of a whales, whose Sky is the ocean depths and whose depths is the air and land men walk on.
However I didn't seem to mind...
It is mysterious, it was unknowable because it isn't our place. It is not even important for this story.
And of course the beautiful illustrations added a lot to the already chilling atmosphere.

My Insta Picture of this book: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_gzwznM26/?taken-by=eloise_brad