The Blue Whale is a compendium of the dark mythology of the internet, the one we knew how to get and create, that black mirror in which insomnia is reflected. Fictional monsters receive offerings of blood, videos of death and destruction pass in front of our eyes with the indifference we dedicate to porn, secret messages reveal the emptiness. Raúl Quinto reviews with the voice of an oracle this exhibition of atrocities, rabbit gods and war criminals, along with other names of solitude in front of the screen. I had a great time reading. - Mariana Enríquez
A journey through the digital fears that permeate reality, a smart and revealing critique on online manipulation.
We live in a time where truth and lies are diluted in each other, building dangerous parallel worlds through disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories and hoaxes. Internet rooms, life-threatening challenges, Dark Web forums, viral memes, these are the expressions of today’s terror. And it is on this edge that we read The Blue Whale, which takes its name and its structure from the viral game that took the lives of several teenagers in the 2010s, and which offers us a disturbing and intelligent critique of these tools of manipulation using the same weapons.
Just as he revolutionised the standards of the historical novel with the acclaimed and multi-awarded The Hammer of the Shadow King, Raúl Quinto now opens up new paths for horror literature where the very language and the contradictions to which he subjects the reader form part of a borderline experience.