Natalie Manuel's Reviews > Babel

I was so looking forward to this but ended up DNF'ing it.

I found the characters wooden, lacking any depth and the plot was so slow, I just didn't care. Robin didn't feel like a real person to me, particularly the part where he goes to see the 'popular kids' and randomly decides he doesn't care what they think, even though it doesn't fit with his character at all.

It all just felt a bit blurgh, I was expecting a real character driven exploration of the effect of colonisation but I didn't get any real characters.

The linguistic stuff was interesting but too much of it felt inserted, it wasn't organic.