From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
fun anti-colonial fantasy-lite
4 stars
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The only thing I can hold against it is it's a tiiinnnny bit heavy handed with the metaphors, otherwise this is a super fun and satisfyingly anticolonial take on kid-gets-whisked-off-to-another-life genre. For the fantasy-adverse, there's a small amount of magic but it doesn't go off the rails in that regard.