Whalefall: A Novel

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Trapped alive like a modern Jonah in the belly of the whale, it’s on Jay to escape his predicament as his sanity and oxygen deplete. The back and forth between Jay's present circumstance and his reflections on his past kept the story moving at a nice, steady clip. Kraus first appeared on my radar when I read the excellent novelization of Guillermo del Toro’s film The Shape of Water.

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Unexpectedly emotional and wildly entertaining, Whalefall is the tense revamp of Jonah's tale you didn't know you needed.Before Jay can swim back to safer waters, he becomes entangled in the tenacles of a giant squid being pursued by a sixty-ton sperm whale the size of a warehouse ascending from the depths of the unknown. The idea here is, of course, to develop Whalefall for the big screen, at the point when Hollywood is again back up and running. And the answer had been yes—provided that it was a large sperm whale, the only kind of whale with a throat that could fit a human. As with “Girl In Ice”, this is one of the most thoughtful, stunning horror/thriller books I’ve ever read. I think it’s a real testament to the diversity of our teams,” Imagine Entertainment President Justin Wilkes told Deadline of the nominations.

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Also behind The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, which was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top Ten Books of the Year, Kraus had additionally won the Bram Stoker Award, the Scribe Award and two Odyssey Awards, at the same time seeing his works repeatedly named as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults and more. They show up in our religions, our children’s entertainment (like Disney’s Pinocchio), and our popular fiction (like Arthur C. When you look at just the breadth of the nominations — which range from A Black Lady Sketch Show, to Emily in Paris, to our great feature doc on Judy Blume, the Letterman-Zelenskyy interview — it really just shows off the full range of what Imagine’s doing as a company.io9: There’s something very alien about a lot of deep sea creatures; how did you approach writing details to work in a way that seems both plausible and otherworldly in their strangeness? The rest of this suspenseful, claustrophobic tale speeds by as Jay discovers he has only an hour’s worth of air — not to mention how to figure out how to escape the whale itself. Kraus also co-authored Trollhunters with del Toro and saw that work of fantasy be developed into an Emmy-winning Netflix series, additionally collaborating with legendary filmmaker George A. My Reading Experience: Right out of the gate, I’m letting other readers know that this will be one of the standouts for the year, for me. You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel.

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In addition to all of the emotion though, this is also fairly gruesome and I thought the descriptions of what was going on with Jay's body, and the whale's, was so well done. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored THE SHAPE OF WATER, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is an “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life…only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places. This page includes affiliate links where Horror DNA may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This gripping sci-fi thriller from bestseller Kraus takes readers quite literally into the belly of the beast […] Kraus provides solid nautical science alongside the stretchy coincidences that fuel Jay’s survival.Kraus] brings the rigor of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet to his descriptions of the undersea world. I'm sure there's an audience for this, but that audience is mostly not reading it because they think it's a horror book about a dude being swallowed by a whale. Jay needs a win (cue examples of every single thing Jay's done wrong to foreshadow how badly he needs to now do something right.

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Some time later, Jay finds himself at Monastery Beach, a place in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. The core of “Whalefall” is a thematic examination of loss, resiliency, and the possibility of healing in people. This contrast reflects Jay’s own internal conflict, with the depths of his sorrow, rage, and longing reflecting the icy seas of Monterey Bay. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own lives by the novel’s investigation of memory, identity, and family. The father and son didn’t have the best relationship, and diving was about the only activity they did together.Daniel Kraus's rendering of this tale of survival is brilliant, simply consuming readers alive just as the whale swallowed Jay alive. As I mentioned the descriptions in this book are vivid, which I loved but they are also vivid when it comes to what is inside the whale's stomach and the injuries Jay receives while doing his best to find a way out of the whale. The recollections, which are filled with both love and sorrow, show the sensitive moments and heartbreak that have shaped their relationship.