Dino on that moonbase was genuinely absolutely fucking miserable and her and Lapis were clinging to eachother as the only source of any sort of comfort whatsoever and it was nice to get them to talk and actually confide in stuff they didn’t want to discuss before or were scared to or didn’t properly internalize beforehand but also oh my god both of them were like. At possibly some of their worst mental health wise. Dino fully convinced that she’s nothing more than a coward who has nothing good about herself whatsoever and all she’s good for is running away and dragging everyone down with her. Meanwhile Lapis is beating herself up internally because she believes she’s trapped Dino up there with her (not realizing that Dino is just as panicked and trying to hide as she is) and believes that she just hurts everyone around her and that they’d be fully correct in hating her if she ever went back. Both of them are convinced everyone would be furious at them and think they deserve it and that they’re absolutely horrible for doing all of this and still spying on everyone while being too scared to go back. And they’re just clinging to eachother during this and getting more and more intimate with eachother as an “this is the only thing that makes me feel anything but self-hatred rn” thing. They do end up confessing their feelings for eachother but they don’t really discuss anything properly until they get back and until Peridot is also in the picture so all three of them can talk #BADATCOMMUNCATIONBUTTRYINGTOGETBETTER
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I didn't have much in the way of expectations for this novel, outside of the base premise of "man gets swallowed by whale," and based on other readers' reactions that definitely seems to have helped.
It seems like the marketing heavily focused on the similarity to Andy Weir's The Martian, because the biggest complaint I saw while skimming through reviews was that it had far too much focus on the protagonist's personal emotional struggles compared to the actual science-based efforts to survive (I saw a sentence similar to "I thought I was getting The Martian underwater, but instead I got a teenager with daddy issues who happens to be inside a whale" three separate times) and that those efforts were based too much on luck rather than ingenuity. I get where those criticisms are coming from, as someone who loves The Martian and rated it higher than this novel at A, but I didn't go in expecting that kind of story, and so I was apparently much more able to enjoy what I got, which was a blurringly metaphorical journey through a young man's struggle to both survive being swallowed by a whale and reconcile his own experience of his late abusive father with the man's reverence around the town in particular and in the diving community at large. Sure, the hard science of a whale's inner biology (explored in full, gory detail) was contrasted with a great deal of luck and some nearly literal spiritualism, but that just felt like the kind of story being told — one that's more of an emotional experience than a literal, tangible story. Maybe I'm wrong...but I don't feel worse off for it.
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I guess sometimes you either love a book or hate it.
I just finished WhaleFall by Daniel Kraus and, personally, I loved it. Very much.
A story about a guy getting swallowed by a sperm whale. There’s a movie coming out and I wanted to read the book first.
An important detail is that 90% of the book is really about the protagonists’ personal journey through grief. A teenager, nonetheless, so the thought process can sound childish sometimes.
But I hardly minded all of that. Actually I loved it.
Spoilers ahead———————
I read so many people being upset that the whole book wasn’t about the whale thing, but honestly it would have been exhausting. It’s a near death experience, what are you gonna do? Not think about your life??
Also, I loved the writing. Maybe because it’s similar to my style. But for some people it was a deal breaker.
The whale thing doesn’t happen until like 40% and I can understand that it’s annoying, but I honestly thought it was better, or at least very well done, this way. But after that you’re gonna wanna finish it.
It may just be because I got attached to the characters pretty quickly, and so I was interested in them. All of them.
Especially, I loved the chapter division. I read another book with a similar structure and I just loved it.
I’m not a diving expert (or a stomach survivor(?)) so I can’t really speak regarding that. But I’m an animal enthusiast and all the whale and animal facts where very detailed and accurate, so I can only guess the rest was throughoutly researched too.
Also the voices thing. I thought it would be a convenient helper exactly when and how Jay(the protagonist) needed it. But it made sense. They were accompanied by flashbacks about how he learned those facts and they made sense. All things a diver(especially someone as obsessed as Jay’s father) would very well know.
Also, as I’ve read someone say, the fact that Jay is so young and conflicted works very well with his internal turmoil. From the start his dad is tough and apparently not much of a good dad. At least not to him. But while in there, going through all his memories, he starts to rethink things. He realizes that the only one who saw him as an antagonist was himself. Hid dad’s strongest fault was not being vocally affectionate, and being fixated on the position of “the man”. But he was a good parent, a great guide. And we get to realize that with Jay, who is just a teenager who just lost his antagonistic father in the worst way possible, and is being blamed for it by everyone.
The only weird thing is probably about him remembering so much information in detail. Especially considering he’s not an enthusiast(just forced into it by his dad) and ,as I have gathered, he’s not really cut for it. He was just taught since he could walk, doesn’t mean he’s made for it.
Especially the info about what his sisters do, that he happens to remember in detail and that is exactly what he needs.
All of that I understand.
But I would still give this book a strong 4.5 out of 5. Mostly because there isn’t a perfect book/story but I loved this.
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The regional blocks on this deep scuba whale interior survival drama are incredibly annoying for international fans. Alternative streaming sites offer unwatchable low-res copies with audio delay.
"I asked Chat GPT"
Well I asked the still living dead gods at the bottom of the ocean and they said that for your sins against the deep you will not know the luxury of decomposing for you will instead rot where no mollusks, arthropods, nor others will reclaim you <3
God that lapis post is making me think of whalefall parallels and how both Dino and Lapis never really got to like. Have a life before everything. Lapis was poofed so shortly after her creation but Dino was just. Outcast from the very beginning and thrown into a war and was one of its only survivors because she ran and hid and was completely alone and afraid for so long afterwards. you both have to deal with the fact that what has happened to you has changed you in ways that can’t ever really go away and you lost so much to it because of a war you were just kind of dragged into. Dino wouldn’t really wonder what it could’ve been like otherwise like Lapis does but I think the fact that she’s just as horrifically undersocialized (probably moreso because she ran off relatively soon after her creation) and just as paranoid and scared and traumatized and hurt is just like. i feel like both of them would feel guilty about having feelings of relief that someone else understands what it was like yk? you were made and you were so new to the world and you suffered because of it. The way you are now is basically all you’ve ever known, even if you’re in a better place now
