Tag: babel

• R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis May Be My Most Disappointing Read of 2025

  Katabasis has been the most anticipated release within dark academia fiction in 2025, and honestly it has been one of the most anticipated books of the whole year overall. Unfortunately, R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis completely missed the mark for me, and I might shock you in saying I have DNFed it. Two graduate students must set…

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  September 26, 2025

  adult fantasy, dark academia

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• Sharp Dark Academia Critique in M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven

  Dark academia is hitting hard with this brilliant read, M.L. Wang’s Blood Over Bright Haven. Fans of R.F. Kuang’s Babel will love this intense, intriguing, insightful fantasy dark academia novel and all the elements of critique and social commentary it brings with it. Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic…

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  April 28, 2025

  adult fantasy, dark academia, science fiction

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• My Favourite Reads of 2024

  It’s time to share my 2024 favourites! I am very happy with the books I read in 2024, finding so many gems and enjoying far more genres than expected. I have rated a far few books a 4.5 or 5 stars and I highly recommend them all. This list goes in chronological order of when…

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  January 3, 2025

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• My October 2024 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: preoccupied. As October has been the final month of postgrad classes, personal stuff, and the exam season, I have been rather busy. Finding the time to read when other things should take precedence can bring about a lot of guilt, so I haven’t read as many books as I thought (mainly the first…

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  October 31, 2024

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• The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…

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  October 25, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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