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A review by chikagi
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
dark
tense
3.75
All of my friends are reading this series, so I picked it up as well.
This book starts with Baru as a child, and takes a few chapters to really get going, but is important for establishing where she comes from, what shaped her childhood, what her goals are. The map included with the book is useless, and I had to make my own terrible map to actually place were things were happening, which is very important because there's lots of maneuvering.
Once Baru begins to experience the wider world, it's very compelling, but the book is called The Traitor Baru Cormorant for a reasonand the final chapters felt inevitable. It's not a book where you get to hold on to nice, pleasant things.
Dickenson is asking if the master's tools will ever dismantle the master's house, which unfortunately is not a topic I personally value a cis straight male author's viewpoint on. I've heard it before. I don't want to read through more torture of queer people and other horrors unless I know there's some narrative payoff, and the series isn't finished yet. If I hear that the completed story is satisfying, I might continue the series.
This book starts with Baru as a child, and takes a few chapters to really get going, but is important for establishing where she comes from, what shaped her childhood, what her goals are. The map included with the book is useless, and I had to make my own terrible map to actually place were things were happening, which is very important because there's lots of maneuvering.
Once Baru begins to experience the wider world, it's very compelling, but the book is called The Traitor Baru Cormorant for a reason