2.26k reviews for:

Senlin Ascends

Josiah Bancroft

4.05 AVERAGE

liam_curran's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious 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: Complicated

jarh198's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

pschiffelbein's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

wurhwnsosh's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mazmaddox's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

kmartinix's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jacky_bosworth's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

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no more books with zero women and unlikable men, thanks

yarnchickenreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book threw me for a loop.  It had moments of non-spicy romance, fantasy, adventure, thriller, humor, dark horror, and even swashbuckling.  Set in a secondary flintlock world, Tom Senlin loses his wife Marya on their honeymoon to the Tower of Babel.  We watch Senlin’s journey to find her in this bizarre tower and his considerable growth as a character as he climbs.  He meets many side characters along the way, and no one is what they seem.  This book was fascinating and I never lost interest as I flipped pages.  Check trigger warnings, but if you like unlikable and ambiguous characters, and often quite dark narrative, I’d recommend this book.  It is first in a series of four and I can’t wait for the next installment.

I immersion read this book and I enjoyed  the narrator’s , John Banks, performance considerably.

muppud's review against another edition

5.0

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Very much in love with Josiaha's worldbuilding ability. This story is so unique in the way that it is able to balance a lighthearted playfulness while also being dark and gruesome while somehow in a steampunk universe and also the tower of babel is an actual thing? Crazy.

liztee's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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