Their destination is the third ring, which is purported to have hotels and resorts and basically everything needed for a vacationer’s paradise. Senlin has a tattered, dog-eared copy of the guidebook in his pocket and has spoken often to his students of the many wonders of its various “ring-doms.” Wealthy tourists can take an airship to an upper level and enjoy the view more frugal travellers like Senlin and Marya must start at the bottom and make their way up. In Senlin Ascends, mild-mannered schoolteacher Thomas Senlin takes his young wife Marya on the trip of a lifetime for their honeymoon: the much-acclaimed Tower of Babel. Senlin Ascends isn’t a book for everyone - but based on the reviews, for the right kind of reader, it is an unexpected, brilliant delight. The cover of my advance reading copy of Senlin Ascends includes a Goodreads review from a reader named Paul: “You need to read this! Don’t read the blurb, dive in blind.” I took his advice and dove in blind, but managed to read as far as I did only because I ended up reading a few of the glowing reviews mid-way through.
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