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gingerabbie 's review for:
Babel
by R.F. Kuang
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
I listened to this as I struggled with the physical copy. The writing feels very complicated/overly intellectual. As in that why use one word when you can use 5.
The audiobook definitely helped with getting over that. I really liked the mixture of characters, though would have loved to know more about them. I know you can’t build out the secondary characters too much.
One thing that would have been nice to tie in with Letti. It would have been a good tie in if her dead brother was a member of Hermes, and that’s another layer to her disdain, and lacking of understanding to the others.
The audiobook definitely helped with getting over that. I really liked the mixture of characters, though would have loved to know more about them. I know you can’t build out the secondary characters too much.
One thing that would have been nice to tie in with Letti. It would have been a good tie in if her dead brother was a member of Hermes, and that’s another layer to her disdain, and lacking of understanding to the others.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War, Classism