Praise for The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles "Without question this is the most imaginative piece of young-adult-adjacent fiction I have ever read. It''s a big wolfy huff-and-puff of fresh air in a genre swamped with tired plots and love triangles." --Wall Street Journal "Jason Guriel is a Canadian poet of gobsmacking originality. Three years ago, he published Forgotten Work, a futuristic novel about fans searching for an early 21st-century rock band. [.] Guriel''s new verse novel is, if anything, even more bizarre and delightful." --The Washington Post "Holy hell! What a book, what a story, what a poem!" --Ron Charles, book critic at The Washington Post "The first thing to know about Guriel''s 2023 book is that it''s a novel written in rhyming couplets. The second is that it''s about whalers who are also werewolves.

Guriel has completely nailed his own ambitious brief; it''s imaginative, innovative and unlike anything else published this year." --Globe and Mail "Jason Guriel returns with a bonkers adventure story of werewolf whalers and cult YA authors so immersive you forget the damn thing unfolds in flawless rhyme. Sold as a follow-up to Forgotten Work, it is in fact a freestanding lark of genius. No clue what verse genre Jason Guriel is creating here, but we are all under its shadow now." --Carmine Starnino, author of Dirty Words "Author Jason Guriel''s new work focuses on entertaining people, he sees his verse novels as a form of poetry that might reach outside the insular culture of poets and engage more general readers." --Globe and Mail "Guriel is plainly a talented versifier. Silly, unabashedly committed to charming their audience, his novels are works of whimsy." --Literary Review of Canada "[T]he book that''s going to get under your skin this summer .

dizzyingly interesting . there is something utterly new and exciting here." --Toronto Star "Every so often, you get to read something that is so unique, so imaginative in structure and story, that you''re simply blown away. [.] This novel? Epic poem? Legend? Is so brilliant that it rises to the top of what has been a very excellent streak in reading--I''ve read a lot of outstanding books both before and after The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles, but none so singularly innovative in their storytelling." --The Miramichi Reader "The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles is a deeply original outing. Gorgeously-written, it is a testament to beauty and wonder." --Tara Henley, The Leanout "There is no reason to believe this absurd concoction will work, but it does, rewarding readers with an inventive narrative, gorgeous wordplay, and a healthy dose of humor throughout.

" --Shelf Awareness "A story with heart, intrigue, and mystery [.] Lovers of science fiction will find this unlike anything they''ve read before." --Booklist "The author''s playful disposition and quixotic milieu remain infectious." --Kirkus Reviews "Playful and genre-agnostic." --Quill and Quire Praise for Forgotten Work "A futuristic dystopian rock novel in rhymed couplets, this rollicking book is as unlikely, audacious and ingenious as the premise suggests." --New York Times "A wondrous novel." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "What do you get when you throw John Shade, Nick Drake, Don Juan, Sarah Records, and Philip K. Dick into a rhymed couplet machine? Equal parts memory and forgetting, detritus and elegy, imagination and fancy, Forgotten Work could be the most singular novel-in-verse since Vikram Seth''s The Golden Gate.

Thanks to Jason Guriel''s dexterity in metaphor-making, I found myself stopping and rereading every five lines or so, to affirm my surprise and delight." --Stephen Metcalf "This book has no business being as good as it is. Heroic couplets in the twenty-first century? It''s not a promising idea, but Forgotten Work is intelligent, fluent, funny, and wholly original. I can''t believe it exists." --Christian Wiman.