I Can’t Wait For…From the Belly by Emmett Nahil
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is From the Belly by Emmett Nahil!
From the Belly by Emmett Nahil Genres: Adult, Horror, Queer Protagonists
Representation: M/M
Published on: 30th May 2024
Goodreads
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The whaling vessel Merciful has just made its strangest catch yet: a massive whale containing a still-living man secreted within its stomach lining. Sailor Isaiah Chase is tasked with keeping the enigmatic man alive.
As their relationship grows, a series of accidents, injuries and deaths quickly befall the ship and its crew. Isaiah is plagued by strangely prophetic dreams, even as the crew continues their endless quest for whale oil under the command of an increasingly unhinged captain.
As events spiral further out of control, the mysterious man confesses what Isaiah has begun to suspect: the crew of The Merciful has fallen into a cycle of punishment for their greed and destruction. Isaiah must confront the sea's vengeance made flesh, and choose between this new, strange love and the fate of the ship itself.
There’s a bit of an in-joke to me being excited for this book, because my book-bestie read Whalefall last year – a book about a man who is swallowed by a whale – and I could NOT have noped out harder. Too gross, too scary, claustrophobia and middle-class daddy issues? Absolutely not.
But From the Belly??? GIMME!
In my defense, From the Belly is clearly not about being stuck inside a whale, because the story starts with the mysterious man coming OUT of the whale. Also, no pretentious Lit Fic nonsense involving flashbacks about the MC’s relationship with his father, ffs. Just straight-up horror that is definitely not straight!
And who doesn’t want to see whalers being punished for their greed? Outside of the few Indigenous peoples who depend on it, whaling is FUCKING AWFUL, and I am totally down with seeing a ship full of them get their supernatural comeuppance.
I really, REALLY want to know how Nahil’s guy got in the whale – is he some kind of supernatural being himself? Surely he can’t be a random, completely normal human, especially since he knows what’s going on! Which: what IS going on? Who or what is doing the punishing? What is ‘the sea’s vengeance made flesh’ – is it mystery guy, is that what he is? The way the blurb is worded makes me think not, but… And what choice of Isaiah’s could make any difference???
I can’t wait to find out!
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