While that aspect is still here and still very much the explicit driver of the story, once I got to the end I did wonder if the group had actually done much of this themselves or if other forces would have sorted it anyway. In previous instalments the story felt very much as one of Our Heroes desperately seeking to defeat Marat's evil plans/ save the Tower from a catastrophic malfunction. The world this series builds is so unique and fun to read about.Indeed, this book possibly pays more attention to the latter than the former. I love this book just like I loved the three before it.
It has been a long while since I experienced a book that I couldn’t put aside to do things like eat and sleep. The prose is so evocative, and the story so immersive that I just fell right into the book, and before I knew it, it was 3am.
It is a fairly chonki book, but nonetheless, I was reading until the wee hours of the morning because I just couldn’t stop reading. Once again, I couldn’t put this one down. It took us to a part of the tower we hadn’t ever seen before and it was unlike any other ringdom.īut the real enthralling story continues (for me) to be the story of Tom himself. A good section of the beginning of this one follows Adam after he parted ways with Edith, and I loved every second of it. This particular volume does what I wished that The Hod King does, and it follows one of my favorite characters, Adamos Boreas. This is the continuing story of the Tower of Babel and its various inhabitants, but mostly one Thomas Senlin, whose adventure in the tower has been the main plot of this entire series. While Edith wars for the soul of the young woman, a greater crisis looms: They will have to face Marat on unequal footing and with Senlin caught in the crossfire.Īnd 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.ĭun Dun DUNNNN. She seems to share more in common with the Red Hand now than her former self. As Adam unravels the mystery of his fame, he soon discovers the crowning ringdom conceals a much darker secret.Īboard the State of Art, Edith and her crew adjust to the reality that Voleta has awoken from death changed. In the city under glass at the Tower’s summit, Adam discovers a utopia where everyone inexplicably knows the details of his past. The leader of the zealots is bound for the Sphinx’s lair and the unimaginable power it contains. Caught in a charade, Senlin desperately tries to sabotage the rampaging Hod King, even as Marat’s objective grows increasingly clear. Thanks to the author, as well as Orbit for the review copy!Īs 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. I’m both sorry to see them go, and excited to see how it ends.
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