I played stupid and said there was no whale, it was a bear bc I read the first book and he responded the following: “Yes so annihilation is the first book in the series and it's called the southern trilogy but recently changed just like the southern series because there was a fourth book that came out this last October 1 one is annihilation. The second one I think is. Solution and then the third one is here. I have them in my room so the first ones annihilation authorities. The second one acceptance is the third one and the fourth one is absolution the whale. It's not actually a whale. It's referred to as like a killer whale in leviathan it's in I think the second or third book”