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A review by micareads123
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
This wasn’t as hard hitting for me as I expected it to be, but I think I have to chalk it up to right book, wrong time.
I loved the themes of colonialism/colonization, oppression, gender roles, sexuality. I loved the moral grey area. And I annoyingly loved the weird, economics-obsessed traitor herself, Baru.
But the execution left me feeling unmotivated and at times zoned out. Maybe there were too many battle scenes? Too much accounting?
I have to hand it to Dickinson for really going for it: taking a topic as outwardly dull as accounting and basing an entire plot/character personality around it. Well done. I hate that I loved that.
I did enjoy this and plan to continue with the series, just not immediately.
I loved the themes of colonialism/colonization, oppression, gender roles, sexuality. I loved the moral grey area. And I annoyingly loved the weird, economics-obsessed traitor herself, Baru.
But the execution left me feeling unmotivated and at times zoned out. Maybe there were too many battle scenes? Too much accounting?
I have to hand it to Dickinson for really going for it: taking a topic as outwardly dull as accounting and basing an entire plot/character personality around it. Well done. I hate that I loved that.
I did enjoy this and plan to continue with the series, just not immediately.