The Memory of Babel
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Our view
“The Memory of Babel” moves the “Mirror Visitor” saga to Babel, an inventive, cosmopolitan ark where automata do the menial work. Ophelia arrives under a false identity, guarding a secret from the Book of Faruk, while unrest stirs beneath the orderly surface. Some readers love the deepening bond between Ophelia and Thorn despite a slow opening; others still admire the world but find the romance unhealthy and the leads harder to care about.
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About the book
In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants' growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia's talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?
Reading order · The Mirror Visitor
Full order & progress →- A Winter's PromiseStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Missing of Clairdelune
8.28.2 / 10 - The Memory of BabelThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - The Storm of Echoes
7.87.8 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 86 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 86 | 100% |
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