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fictionadventurer · 1 year ago

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Look, I'm probably never going to want to read the giant chunker of a Big Important Tragic Classic Book (with bonus whale facts!). But I'm always up for reading a 300-pages-or-less light fantasy novel on an intriguing Victorian-flavored world with sailing ships and big monsters and a compelling-yet-maddened-by-vengeance captain surrounded by a loveable crew faced with moral condundrums, all written by people who love the character dynamics and wish the story was less tragic. Plus, if I don't read the original, I don't have to get upset over how any of these retellings twist the story. It's worked really well so far!

#books #moby dick #i've mentioned my love of e.b. dawson's 'ahab'#where it's in a victorian-flavored spacefaring world #where they hunt spaceships run by rogue ai #anyway after 'heir of redclyffe' i burned myself out a bit on classics #and needed a break before tackling any of the other victorian books on my reading list #i taste-tested a few other books but nothing grabbed me #until i found 'chase the legend' by hannah kaye #and found that it had the perfect vibes #misty ominous seafaring story was perfect for november #and it's victorian-ish without having dense victorian prose #pretty fun fantasy world and characters that make the story its own thing #twists it around a theme of living with disability which makes the end a bit cheesy #but there's still quite a lot of grit #more than i expected from a christian take #which was nice #and the 'diving into the big issues of morality' lens was refreshing #after the 'scrupulosity: the novelization' take on christianity that yonge could fall into #anyway i'm two for two on really liking fantasy moby dick retellings #which should make me curious about the book but i think i'm okay like this #though based on these retellings i've deduced that the original contains a creepy dude who worships whales #and i have no idea how that works and i'm a little worried

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