mld12 's review for:

Babel by R.F. Kuang

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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I've never read a longass book before and thought "yeah, it needed all those pages." But this one? YES. My only qualm is I wish it was clearer when the fact tidbits were made up or real. Amazing amazing, RF Kuang never misses. I couldn't read it in one go because it was SO MUCH to think about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Abandonment, Deportation

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Alcohol