A review by oosij
Babel by R.F. Kuang

4.5

i honestly struggled between giving this a flat 4 star rating or a 4.5 but ultimately bumped it up to its extra half-star because i did quite enjoy it and can see myself revisiting this world one day in the future. 

now onto my bullets:

• the beginning half did indeed drag, but i also can't exactly complain when i'm always wanting some proper world-building
• thought this was YA throughout parts of the book lowkey because of just how blatantly kuang drives home the themes (i actually googled to see if it was lmao)
• my first kuang novel, and it's enough for me to dare say she might be a glutton for pain, a sadist for inflicting it on her readers (positive)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood

main character deaths