Kayse’s Reviews > Wild and Distant Seas > Status Update

Sad to say, but this book is kind of infuriating.

Rachel kinda sucks

I have a slight beef already. Ishmael is being portrayed as a green boy who has never sailed before; however, in Moby-Dick, he explicitly starts that he’s sailed on merchant vessels before. The Pequod wasn’t his first ship, it was just his first whaling ship.

I do, however, appreciate that this author canonically made Queequeg homosexual. Now Ishmael needs to be bisexual AT THE VERY LEAST to satisfy me.

I mean, we’re off to a good start! The first page has an excerpt from my favorite chapter of Moby-Dick, Chapter 15: Chowder.”