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Katabasis Book Review
coffeestarsbooks November 24, 2025 8:17 pm Katabasis Release date: 26th Aug 2025 Publisher: Harper Voyager Genres: Fantasy ⊹ ⋆ Dark Academia ⊹ ⋆ Add to Storygraph Add to Goodreads Join the conversation: Bluesky Instagram Twitch Discord “Academia respected discipline, rewarded effort, but even more, it adored genius that didn’t have to try.” ― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis ☕✨ CONTENT WARNINGS: (click to reveal) Suicidal thoughts, suicide, animal death, death, sexual harassment, sexual assault, chronic illness, child death, eating disorder Synopsis: Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick.…
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Yellowface Book Review
From Goodreads: Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her…
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Babel Book Review
From Goodreads: Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world’s center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of…
