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Babel

R.F. Kuang

4.34 AVERAGE

tophat8855's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Very good. I know it’s compared to The Secret History, but I think it’s much better. Also touched on how wore women still show more solidarity with their race because of the inherent privilege than with other oppressed people. Also loved the magic system and linguistics. The audiobook had alternate readers for the explanation sections of the book.

swartzilla's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

carriehaley89's review against another edition

4.25

challenging informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

alanawhitley's review against another edition

5.0

beginning to think it’s self sabotage to read all of rf kuangs books this year. i’m left in shambles and distress each time. nonetheless, i feel like babel is an acquired taste. i see why opinions on this book tend to be really decisive but i really liked it. it’s crazy how much this book feels so relevant now, i felt like a lot of the conversations and thing’s happening were a reflection for our society of today.