Leighann Garber’s Reviews > The Last Ship > Status Update

We're quickly running out of book... I feel like this could be a series and it worries me that it ends so soon

The lost cities of New York, Paris, Tokyo, will become the ancient empires, even Atlantis. no ruins to ever go to but maybe pictures. In the encyclopedia. With wonders that they cannot imagine

Shenandoah becomes like Beulah Land. I'm kind of homesick for a country to which I've never been before. Beulah refers the land of Israel, but also heaven and the intangible idea of a homeland, a place of belonging

Of course this long winded guy would ask the Russian captain if he has acrophobia rather than afraid of heights 😂 but he seems to understand

And above all, it's not about getting their rocks off. They are matched in intelligence and humor, enjoy the same books. She is a person to him. I never expected this from this novel

Cw sexy stuff


The writer's -Captain's description of sex, of a woman- her taste, her scent, even female ejaculation and of course orgasm is so beautiful and natural, complete. He enjoys every part of her, and it's at her pleasure. He doesn't have to be asked, he wants to, needs to, can't get enough of her. There's no quivering puddings and throbbing manhoods. I don't think I've read sex by a man that was so good

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500 pages in, the sex scene with Girard is anticipated but almost shocking. The captain has been so introspective about everything talking on every topic but never explicitly about sex avoiding it to a fault. I love them together. I -hahah, I "shipped them" from the beginning.

I'd almost think he is unaware of "cunt smell" but it fits and of course it reminds him of the sea. Bravo

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost part of the sea; even there shall they hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me. Psalm 139 but seems made for this

Again shades of Noah with the birds. I wonder if Brinkley caught that or thought about it, sending out the ravens and the dove, but I imagine it comes up for all sailors as birds are signs of land...and also the ancient Mariner and the albatross and all that

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Realistically, you could expect sexual assault to have come up, to have happened much sooner. It's such a common occurrence for women in the military unfortunately.

We're the overboard folks all willingly? Who knows. Maybe Bixby wasn't the first victim

I find the punishment fitting. Humane enough with rations (and a pistol) but he had to be removed. Name not important apparently