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• The Poppy War Had Promise But Wasn’t Quite What I’d Hoped

  

  Three-hundred pages in and I felt like Kuang had yet to really hook me with any narrative weight. Worse, I realized I had been carried along for all those pages on a wave of story beats built entirely upon tired tropes of the fantasy genre.

  blakeisreading14

  January 26, 2023

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• Babel: An Arcane History – a Period-Piece Tackling Colonialism that Struggles at the Finish Line

  

  Though I feel it fails to choose whether to be either a fantasy or fully-developed alternate history, Babel’s greatest success is as an engrossing and well-researched examination of early- to mid-nineteenth century Britain and the effects of its colonialism, both at home and abroad. It examines the mindset of those who are assimilated into Western…

  blakeisreading14

  November 17, 2022

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