The Flesh of the Sea by Lor Gislason, Shelley Lavigne

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

An adorable MM epistolary romance AND and gory creature horror with found family pirates and terrifying sea monsters.

🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙/5

I fucking loved this book. Omg.

It's told in a series of letters and journal entries between two men who love each other but aren't sure how to express it. (Don't worry, they figure it out 💗)

Wil, sets off on a navy ship which soon gets taken over by pirates. He quickly becomes the surgeon and the chef. Every letter he writes home to his best friend (and hopefully more) is about the wild, unhinged, and distressing situations he gets in.

Right when you think it can't get weirder or more surreal - it does.

I giggled and kicked my legs excitedly through this whole novella.

🩳 It's short (150 pages)
📖 It's on KU
🏳️‍🌈 It's queer
🇨🇦 It's written by Canadians

You'll love
⚓ Zombie lobsters
⚓ Demonic entity
⚓ Tentacle orgy
⚓ Sirens
⚓ A large mole referred to as "my wife Deborah"

Thank you to Hedone Books and Shelley Lavigne for ensuring I received a copy of this book.

TL;DR - Cozy, gory, queer pirate novella that you have to read RIGHT NOW.