La Mémoire de Babel

this series just keeps getting better and better the further into it i get!! if you're looking for a book that's his dark materials mixed with a studio ghibli film, then look no further!! the character development in this book supersedes the two books that came before this one by a long shot. if i loved thorn and ophelia before, then it's nothing compared to how i feel about them now!! the way thorn is with ophelia is Exactly the kind of romance i enjoy in any novel!! definitely adding him to my list of book boyfriends. also that boy Definitely has ocd and it's nice to see someone who has that illness like i do where he's not villainized for it or turned into some sort of freak. same with ophelia who, to me, is very autistic coded. there were so many bits in this book that i adored and omg it's so difficult trying to write this review without spoiling anything. the side characters, as usual, stand out so much!! octavio, my beloved. i hope we see more of him in the next book. i hated him at first, but this author does a very good job of making you feel the emotions about her characters that she wants you to before doing some sort of reveal that they're not at all what you're assuming them to be. i'm also very curious about victoria!! Something is going on with her, i just can't figure out what. i thought i did at one point during this book, but, as usual, the author did a great bait and switch with her character. the setting is even more akin to castle in the sky in this book with the introduction of automatons, and babel reminds me a bit of piltover and zaun in arcane!! though i would never want to live there; the authoritarianism in the babelian government reminds me far too much of what's happening in the usa at the moment except much, much worse. the linework is beautiful and so very engaging. this is the first time the book really starts to pick up and reveal what everything in the story is about, but, because the author is very good at what she does, she keeps you completely occupied until now so it doesn't ever once feel like this book series is slow to get to the main plot. there's so many things that happen in this book that set up the finale so well and i cannot wait to get to it, but i'm also not ready to leave this world quite yet. all in all, this book was amazing and definitely the best in the series so far!! i'm Very curious and excited about the last book in the series!!

Nel terzo intenso volume della saga Christelle Dabos ci fa esplorare la meravigliosa città di Babel. Nel cuore di Ofelia vive un segreto inafferrabile, chiave del passato e, nello stesso tempo, chiave di un futuro incerto. Dopo due anni e sette mesi passati a mordere il freno su Anima, la sua arca, per Ofelia è finalmente arrivato il momento di agire, sfruttare quanto ha scoperto nel Libro di Faruk e saputo dai frammenti di informazioni divulgate da Dio. Con una falsa identità si reca su Babel, arca cosmopolita e gioiello di modernità. Basterà il suo talento di lettrice a sventare le trappole di avversari sempre più temibili? Ha ancora una minima possibilità di ritrovare le tracce di Thorn?