![]() Following the story was no problem skipping whole paragraphs, just ogling sentences here and there to spot where I should slow down for real story development, instead of filler. I found myself skimming a few times in the second half of the book, yet it seems I didn’t miss a thing. ![]() I guess I should not expect natural speech in a fantasy story like this, but there’s an artificiality to Bancroft’s wordiness that made me aware of the fact I was reading a 21st century book trying to masquerade as something set in a secondary world at the dawn of electricity. ![]() It’s generally okay for sure – it does the job telling an escapist story which main goal is entertainment – but it didn’t ring truthful to me. While lots of reviewers rave about the prose, to me, it felt different. Thomas Senlin transforms from a quiet armchair bibliophile to an air-balloon pirate in the process. Not the biblical one, but a mammoth with an unknown number of ‘ringdoms’, in a steampunkish setting. ![]() ![]() You’ve probably read it elsewhere, but Senlin Ascends is the first in a four book series – The Books Of Babel – about a headmaster on a quest to find his wife, which he lost while on their honeymoon in the Tower of Babel. Praised/hyped widely, this debut was first self-published in 2013, and picked up by Orbit in 2017. ![]()
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