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birdwithsword 's review for:
Babylonia
by Costanza Casati
dark
tense
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An oddly dreamlike book in which characters are more archetypes fhan believable people. There isn't really any character growth for anyone at all and the plot has a distinct sense of inevitability to it. Perhaps that was on purpose, given some of the themes of the book, but it created a very detached vibe that made it hard to get truly invested even as I kept turning pages.
The constant Pearls of Wisdom got old rather fast and the references to Gilgamesh weren't as organic or coherent as I suspect the author would have liked. I feel like for so much of this book I can see what she was going for, but the pieces never quite came together, much less as more than the sum of their parts.
The constant Pearls of Wisdom got old rather fast and the references to Gilgamesh weren't as organic or coherent as I suspect the author would have liked. I feel like for so much of this book I can see what she was going for, but the pieces never quite came together, much less as more than the sum of their parts.