A review by shane_the_reading_rat
From the Belly by Emmett Nahil

5.0

i offer you this advice: if you are like me and after starting this book, gave it the side eye and kinda are disliking it, i beg you KEEP GOING. it is definitely a slowburn and does not start off fast paced (it starts off as kinda your average historical fiction except for there being a dude inside a whale), but it gets incredible in the second half. the coolest maritime horror book i've ever read (idk that i've read many thus far, but this will probably be the coolest one i've read ever). again, a slow burn, but Emett Nahil did an incredible job at ramping up the suspense (

and god Isaiah and Essex are horrifying as a couple but that ending scene was so vivid, i love them!!! universe needs to let them be together!!!

i need to shake Essex around in a little jar, he's a creepy little man!!!)
this is basically if Our Flag Means Death was horror, which i never knew i needed until now