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Wonderfully atmospheric, with personable and believable characters interwoven with an intriguing storyline and the first of a fabulous trilogy. Open-mindedness, tolerance and diversity is in abundance.

It’s just fantastic. It takes you on a real journey and has a few twists. You really get to know and love the characters

This book appealed to me on a variety of levels but mostly due to its take on the power of language-more to the point English language. If you like Philip Pullman then you will like this. Set in the world of Oxford this takes the reader through the world of Babel and its translators and gives a fresh insight into how language is power. We follow the child proteges who are brought from their homelands to the Babel institute where they think they are going to live their ideal existance of scholarly research only to find a much darker purpose at the heart of this powerful institute. Guarantee you will be hooked within a couple of pages.

Came across this book by chance in Booka in Oswestry. Guess it falls into the Sci-Fi/Fantasy World genres best of all-however does have aspects of dystopian fiction too. Has a rich range of characters -including God. The world created is recognisably human and has shades of a darker world that Pullman might create. This is a tale of occupation and colonisation, the eradication of suspect cultures by the oppressors but most of all it is just a tale very well told and an enjoyable read.