Even Senlin! I didn’t really enjoy his POV in the books, but I enjoyed it more in this one. It was so good, and the characters felt so real and fleshed out. I’m having a really hard time writing a decent review for this book, so I’ll just say that I’m so happy that I started reading this series when I had initially been not so excited about it. Wow, so much happened in this conclusion to the Books of Babel! Adam is having one heck of a time in the Tower’s summit and Voleta is changing. But whatever Josiah has planned for his next book, I can promise you I’ll be reading it. Another part of me (a bigger part, I think) wants to leave what happens to them all purely in my imagination. Or more than one sequel series anyone who reads the book will know why just one won’t cut it. Part of me really wants a sequel series to find out what’s next for Tom, Edith, and the rest. Everyone’s journey continues everyone has more struggles on the horizon. No one gets a Disney-esque “happily ever after,” because such a thing doesn’t exist. Things are exactly as easy (or as hard) as they should be. There’s satisfying character growth all around. The love triangle gets resolved in a way I found very satisfying (which is saying something, because I *despise* reading about love triangles). We learn what the deal is with the Tower of Babel itself. What I will say is that *The Fall of Babel* was an immensely satisfying conclusion to what has proved to be a totally unique journey. If you’ve read books 1-3, you know what you’re getting. I’m not going to make any particular effort to sell the series here. Plus I get lots of hipster satisfaction by being able to say “Oh yeah, I read the Books of Babel before they were cool.” But Mark Lawrence read and boosted him, and he got a surge of popularity as word of just how awesome *Senlin Ascends* was spread around /r/Fantasy, and now he’s writing for Orbit. It had been rejected by pretty much everybody, and he was (I understand) discouraged and pretty much ready to give up on being a writer. Josiah is sort of /r/Fantasy’s “local boy made good.” He was in self-published obscurity for years after first publishing *Senlin Ascends*. I have a lot of feelings about finishing the Books of Babel.
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