I should have known I couldn’t read this. It’s a bunch of masculine men on a ship, hunting and butchering gorgeous sentient whales. My fault for thinking this was for me. I’m sure there’s interesting analysis where it critiques colonization, whaling, empiricism. I just couldn’t stay plugged in long enough.

I like the gay main characters! That was a pleasant surprise. Even though  one of them is a caricature of the noble savage native barbarism, I found their relationship cute, odd, and endearing.