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A review by aleccjohnston
Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
5.0
It’s been a little bit since I read this, but the story just sticks in my brain. The more time that passes, and the more I think about this book, the more I think it might be one of my favorites of all time.
It strikes me as a story and style that might not work for everyone, but for me it scratched an itch I didn’t even realize I had.
I began as everyone probably did with this book, being annoyed at Senlin’s passivity and naïveté. That annoyance quickly turned inward when I realized that I was having that reaction because of how viscerally REAL of a character he is. He was doing exactly what most people reading the book would have. And with that realization, I was able to appreciate both Senlin as a character a lot more, and his transformation over the course of the story.
And this is not even mentioning the fantastic other characters and cool weird plot developments that come as a result of the Tower being what it is.
I’m so so excited to see what more is in store for Thomas Senlin in this perfectly malleable place that is the Tower of Babel
It strikes me as a story and style that might not work for everyone, but for me it scratched an itch I didn’t even realize I had.
I began as everyone probably did with this book, being annoyed at Senlin’s passivity and naïveté. That annoyance quickly turned inward when I realized that I was having that reaction because of how viscerally REAL of a character he is. He was doing exactly what most people reading the book would have. And with that realization, I was able to appreciate both Senlin as a character a lot more, and his transformation over the course of the story.
And this is not even mentioning the fantastic other characters and cool weird plot developments that come as a result of the Tower being what it is.
I’m so so excited to see what more is in store for Thomas Senlin in this perfectly malleable place that is the Tower of Babel