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And The Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness
4.0

Wow! The art inside and outside of this novel is breathtaking. I fell in love with this story the moment I heard of it's inception. Seeing the world from a whale's perspective, the ocean becoming the sky, I was hooked (honestly no pun intended there).

I loved how quickly I acclimated to this narrative, and how steadily I flowed through the prose. I finished this novel in about an hour and anticipate this being a book I pick up whenever I need to cleanse the palate.

This story was dark, heartbreaking, and oddly introspective. With the art included as visual aid, this depressing story was somehow made beautiful. I'm genuinely impressed.