![]() ![]() ![]() Though over seven hundred pages, The Fall of Babel flies at a breathless pace that left me itching to pick the book up again. The story follows Tom and his merry band of followers as race to save the tower from Marat and his hods, and their dynamic relationships, which drive the plot as much as the need to stop Marat. His metaphors are unique, vivid, and utterly delightful. His voice as a writer is distinct, flowing, beautiful, and never overwrought. Everything about the book-the prose, the character relationships, and the satisfying conclusion all leave me feeling warm and satisfied, but also a tad melancholic that Babel has fallen.īancroft opens the book with an in-universe reminder of recent occurrences, which was as helpful as it was delightful, and instantly brought me back to his embrace of his prose stylings, one of my favorite aspects of his work. ![]() There is nothing so satisfying as a well-written ending to a series, and in The Fall of Babel, Josiah Bancroft delivers. ![]()
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