These are the Colonizers Arrive story, the Feudal Power Game story, and a third story, which is Baru’s final challenge. I am rarely so impressed by a debut novel. The story of The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a story of Baru being deployed into three stock fantasy narratives to subvert them and turn them to her own ends. I will probably finish the sequel tonight, but I felt like I had to say something on here before then.
I finally see why all those people were recommending it.
Blown away by how much I enjoyed this book and the story it tells. I looked at the description of the first book and it did not look like anything special to me as I had read several books with similar summaries in recent months and did not think they were anything special.įast forward to now, when I finally started reading The Traitor Baru Comorant on my kindle a few hours ago and just finished it. They settled Taranoke while trying to find Oriati Mbo, ahead of the first wave of militant Maia expansionism. the Urunoki alphabet A descendant of Maia Urun, just as the people of Taranoke are descendants of the Tu Maia.
Anyways, a few months ago everyone on here seemed to be so excited for a sequel coming out to the book The Traitor Baru Cormorant. One of the design tenets of Baru’s character is that she is highly agentic. I've been a fairly voracious reader for years and am always looking for new books to read as I tend to burn through most recommended series very quickly. As she pursues a precarious balance between the rebels and a shadowy cabal within the Empire, she orchestrates a do-or-die gambit with freedom as the prize.īut the cost of winning the long game of saving her people may be far greater than Baru imagines.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Little bit of background: So I've been on this sub-reddit for a while now, made several posts about recommendations and read lots of the favorites that people have mentioned. The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up and see red sails on the horizon. Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the critically-acclaimed debut novel from Seth Dickinson, one of the rising new stars in fantasy. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free.
In Seth Dickinson's highly-anticipated debut The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy.īaru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people-even her soul.
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