Lili’s Reviews > Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution > Status Update

Oh my goodness the ending of Book III was so good and I did not see it coming!

It’s almost halfway into the book, where’s Robin’s character development? The lack of which is progressively turning him from tolerable to annoying. I know he is supposed to represent a certain type of people—the normal people, but come on.

I was so excited when I first started reading this book, as I love that you can tell the author is passionate and enthusiastic about her work. The FOOTNOTES! But after a few days of struggle, I bitterly realized that this is going to be a very slow read for me. I don’t know how to explain it, but it feels like the author is talking to herself, not to the audience. I somehow feel alienated from the story.