A review by noviexash
Babel by R.F. Kuang

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

Wow. Just wow. I initially almost DNF'd this book because the first part of it was so dense and, at a lot of points, hard to understand (this is why I didnt give it a full 5 star rating). I came back to the reviews on here and goodreads and they convinced me to keep going. 

I am so glad I did. This is such a breathtakingly dark, emotional, and hopeful read. I was crying through the last few chapters. This book can definitely be seen as a commentary on the past colonization, white supremacy, and racism of this country (and others of course), but is also extremely relevant to current times as we're still dealing with the same issues, and that made reading it so much more difficult and emotional. 

I think there was not much emphasis put on character development (minus the main character Robin), but I think the most important aspect of the book was revolution, change, and injustice. So character development didn't need to be at the forefront of this story and it definitely didn't take away from the book at all.

This was an amazing read and I highly recommend it.