The fall of Babel

The fall of Babel

Josiah Bancroft

Book - 2021

"As Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, erupting inside ringdoms and leaving chaos in its wake, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. Caught in a charade, Senlin desperately tries to sabotage the rampaging Hod King. Marat's objective is increasingly clear: the leader of the zealots is bound for the Sphinx's lair and the unimaginable power it contains. In the city under glass at the Tower's summit, Adam is welcomed into the home of the sparking men. There he meets Ida Allod. A woman who mysteriously seems to know his entire life's story. Adam soon discovers that the whole city knows his name, and as he unravels the reasons why, he'll find that Ida has a g...rim purpose for him in mind. Aboard the State of Art, Edith and her crew are adjusting to the reality that Voleta has awoken from death changed. She seems to share more in common with the Red Hand now than her former self. While Edith wars for the soul of the young woman, a crisis looms. They will have to face Marat on unequal footing, even as they struggle to reunite with Senlin. And when the Bridge of Babel is finally opened, and the Brick Layer's true ambition revealed, neither they nor the Tower will ever be the same again"--

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Subjects
Babel, Tower of > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Imaginary places > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Published
New York, NY : Orbit 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Josiah Bancroft (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
656 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9780316518192
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Review by Booklist Review

In the fourth of the Books of Babel series (after The Hod King, 2019) Adam has succeeded in reaching Nebos, the pinnacle of the tower, only to find that he's already well known in the community due to a rather pared down "artistic" rendering of his life: The Daredevil's Brother. In Nebos, he finds a paradise--mostly. There are some grim undercurrents of isolationism and cruelty in the Bricklayer's city. Senlin, meanwhile, is part of the crew of the Hod King, listening to Marat's increasingly megalomaniacal plans and trying to sabotage them. The crew of the State of the Art is competing with the Hod King to find the Sphinx's key to the room locked by the Bricklayer himself, which will ultimately decide the fate of the Tower of Babel. Inevitably there are failures on every side, and moments when all seems lost--but our heroes never give up. The ways characters have grown and suffered revelations about themselves and their relationships, and the slow reveal of the Bricklayer's cryptic secret at the heart of the tower, lead to a delightfully open-ended and satisfying conclusion.

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