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[quote=Anonymous]Listened to Blood Over Bright Haven by ML Wang. Somewhere between fantasy and speculative fiction, set in a harsh world where civilization is basically in a literal bubble, the City of Tiran, and an elite bureaucracy of mages runs the place on magic. While the book of course relies on magic as its main conceit, the story is otherwise a "realistic" allegory of colonialism, reminding me a lot of Babel. In some ways the strengths and weaknesses of both books are mirror images of each other--I loved Babel's intricate world-building and exploration of language/translation, but it sure got bogged down in the middle and I found that the story had just entirely unspooled by the somewhat unsatisfying ending. Wang's book is much tighter and her writing propulsive, but the world and allegory themselves were somewhat simplistic. Both good if you like this type of literature... though I would not read them back to back![/quote]
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