Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

Alice and Peter are two academics who see no other way to graduate than to go to hell and retrieve their advisor. It was a long journey. It was not hell for me. There is a very large helping of literature and mythology that you could spend ages looking up but if you just walk the path it’s a love story. Kuang is excellent at her magick.

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