.LacyMB reviews Babel, an ambitious fantasy epic that's like nothing else you'll read this year---but that doesn't fully trust its audience to understand its complex themes.
When done right, good fantasy transports us to a different place, introducing characters and realms we’d never have believed possible. But great fantasy should also make us reconsider the place we are as well, challenging us about our own beliefs or choices or offering us a new way of looking at the world we know. Author R.F. Kuang is no stranger to dark, difficult fantasy stories, as her epic trilogy more than proves.
Most of this is unknown to Robin, who falls in love with the picturesque nature of Oxford, the higher calling of his studies, and the cohort of misfit friends who form his Babel class and found family: Charming Calcutta-born Ramiz Rafi Mirza, quiet Haitian-born Victoire Desgraves, and overachieving Letitia Price, an English girl from Brighton with a powerful admiral for a father.
Given how subtle the book is on so many other fronts, its jarring refusal to assume its readers are approaching these issues in good faith is frustrating, to say the least.
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