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Original Title:	Whale Season
ISBN:	0307336786 (ISBN13: 9780307336781)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Florida(United States)

Whale Season

N.M. Kelby

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.42 | 435 Users | 89 Reviews

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One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile home that belonged to an elderly couple from New Jersey (until they disappeared after a run-in with “the Lord”) is won by a down-on-his-luck gambler in an unbelievable hand of poker; the area’s most well-known and long-forgotten tourist attraction is rising up from a hole in the ground; and a gun no one has used in years is suddenly in hot demand. In the steamy climes of southern Florida, you take your miracles where you can get them—and if that means being led to salvation by a schizophrenic with a rap sheet, so be it.

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Title	:	Whale Season
Author	:	N.M. Kelby
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	November 14th 2006 by Broadway Books (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Mystery. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.42 From 435 Users | 89 Reviews

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This was exactly what I needed. This is an easy read, but it's thoughtful and hilarious too. Basically it's a bunch of off-beat characters thrown together in a wacky circumstance. The author digs just deep enough into each character to allow you to connect with them, but I found myself with enough room to vaguely attach the characters to people I know in real life. The setting is perfect. Dinky beach towns in Florida fascinate me. This book is exactly how I picture them. (No offense,

The first book I read by N. M. Kelby was her exquisite In the Company of Angels. What a discovery! So when I came across a used copy of Whale Season, I snapped it up, understanding, of course, that this would be a very different book, and it was. Whale Season is a tongue-in-cheek romp about a misnamed dead-end Florida town and the eccentric (sometimes deranged) characters who frequent the place. I found the writing in Whale Season less impressive than In the Company of Angels, but Im giving this

Another good, light novel to read in a day. I picked this one up when I was near the end of Henry and Clara and things were getting ominous. This was set in a small Florida town and is peopled with a lot of quirky characters. Not overly quirky, so they are annoying, but just unique. Jesus comes to town at Christmas time in a fancy RV. His method of bringing salvation is a bit suspect and the people in the town deal with Jesus and their own problems.

This is the second Kelby book I have read - the first was Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill and I love them!! Whale Harbor is a small town in Florida where there have never been any whales. There is, however, a Jesus who shows up on his birthday, a Las Vegas card dealer with a mysterious scar, and a Buddhist blues man.

Huh. Really, that's all I can come up with in regards to this book. I don't get it. I kept reading the book in hopes that at some point I would connect with the characters, the story, anything at all. It never happened. It's not badly written just poorly executed, in my opinion. I never did care about the characters, I never cared about the story, I had no feelings either way about Jesus - this book was a very uninteresting, dull read for me. I don't feel like Kelby developed the characters

This book is like Frank Perettis The Visitation, except in a more humorous, brightly colored packaging. Great characters, fun situational comedy, a tense climax, and really solid writing!

*I don't know how official any of my rankings really are. This book would have gotten four stars if it had been better. :) It took a really long time to get started and seemed to drag a bit in the middle, but it finished fairly strong and I enjoyed the ending. Not sure how well it will go over in book group, especially the image of a grisly homicidal jesus holding a dead body in one hand and a bloody machete in the other.