a fun adventure story of exploring the depths of the sea
tbh this book gives me strong queer YA fantasy under tones. the main character is a french man who finds himself on Captain Nemo’s submarine the Nautilus. there were many scenes that really glorified nemo and made him like a broody angsty mystery man in every YA fantasy which i thought was hilarious. there was also some tropes such as Nemo only paying attention to the main character man and ignoring the other characters and there was also a whole scene dedicated to discussing how his bedroom was right next to capt nemos which i thought was funny.

besides that it was a fun adventure story with exploration and knowledge but it is also a product of its time and has some extremely racist view points expressed upon finding “natives” on multiple islands