Jamie Moon’s Reviews > Babel > Status Update

I’m about a fifth of the way in (long book), and I’m a bit afraid that this great premise of a novel is falling into the trap of sentimentalism. In the words of Dr. Christina Bieber Lake, “any novel fails as a novel the moment it puts its desired effect—even a good one—above the truth demanded by the story itself. This failure turns fiction into propaganda.” Let’s see if it proves me wrong…