A review by avoraciousreader68
The Sea Wolf by Jack London

dark tense medium-paced

4.0

Book source ~ Audio purchased at Chirp

I listened to this back in August and it has stuck with me. Wolf Larsen is such a brutal man. I don’t care how harsh the conditions out there on the open sea, his brutality is extreme. Yikes. What an asshole. I do admire how he educated himself though and bought himself a ship to hunt seals. Humphrey van Weyden sure gets an education himself at the hands of the Sea-Wolf. The addition of a lady love to the mix strains credulity and the ending is a bit too tidy, but overall this is a tale that has settled into my psyche and I don’t think it will leave for a very long time.