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For a children’s book, this is a dark and at times surreal story. The very first chapter opens with a whale being beached on a rooftop, and our protagonist has to go and cut it open to stop it from exploding, and then a naked blood-covered boy emerges from the cut Ellie made, asking where his brothers and sisters are. It also evokes quite a bit of gothic horror, with all of the gothic architecture and religious themes running throughout the book, as well as some more cosmic horror-like elements (the Enemy, or 'The God Who Drowned the World', seems like it could've come straight out of an H.P. Lovecraft story).