![]() ![]() The levels of the tower, known as the Ringdoms, each pose different threats and challenges. ![]() Bancroft has created a world in which the pinnacle, centre and source of human civilisation is the Tower of Babel. The world-building is still unique, fantastic and at times frightening or disturbing.These aspects attracted me the most while reading. ![]() But the Sphinx’s help does not come cheap and, as Senlin knows, debts in the Tower of Babel are not always what they seem. Hopeless and desperate, they turn to a legend of the Tower, the mysterious Sphinx. Laboriously, he and his newfound friends follow every lead in a roundabout way to save his wife. But Senlin does not forget his real goal and is still searching for his wife and following the clues. By necessity they have mutated into pirates, “nice” pirates. It has been many months since Senlin, – or Captain Tom Mudd as he now tellingly calls himself – Edith, Voleta, Iren and Adam took over the Stone Cloud in a spectacular prank and fled with it. ![]() He ignores her, or at least tries to, but his wife keeps haunting him. Marya pesters him day and night with her apparition and malicious talk about his shipmates. Senlin sees ghosts, or more precisely a ghost, namely his wife. “History is a love letter to tyrants written in the blood of the overrun, the forgotten, the expunged!” ![]()
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