 October is Famous Monsters Month at 50th Street Studios. Join me and my co-hosts at our Twitch channel for classic monster double features every Saturday evening this month. See you there! Hello everybody and welcome. I'm Keith at 30 Seconds High Five. This week I'm going to tell you about Sennelin Ascends. And I don't know how to tell you about it. Where do I even begin? Josiah Bancroft, the author, has created a really compelling, complex and complete world here with the Tower of Babel. It is an infinitely tall tower in the middle of the desert with radically different societies living on each level. Nobody knows how tall the tower actually is, who built it, where it came from. A heartless society has built up around the tower. A society of people scrambling to make a living, to improve their lives, to find meaning, whatever, and all getting caught up in the awful world of the inside of the tower. Sennelin is a schoolteacher from far away small town and his young bride, who have just arrived at the tower, they're just sightseeing. He's a historian. He thinks he knows about the tower. His young wife disappears almost immediately and he is doomed to spend the rest of his life struggling through the levels of the tower, trying to find his wife as a desperate tragedy about loss and also about personal development. By the end of the book, I sure as hell wanted to know what was going to happen in the next level. And I was surprised over and over again throughout the book about how the various levels and the different societies living on those levels related to each other. Bancroft has really created something special here. I recommend you look it up. Thank you for watching this week. Please come back next week for another book review and in the meantime, please become a sponsor. Follow the link on screen and in the description where you can make a monthly pledge or make a one-time donation to help me make more videos.