A review by nicdoeswords
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

slow-paced

5.0

I don't have a rating yet (I'll be rating 4 stars at absolute minimum) because I'm percolating still but I finished this book and made so many little noises of distress. When was the last time a book's ending bodyslammed so hard I felt like I had been launched into a flaming wormhole? My god. Incredible writing, tight plotting, and a kind of relentless horribleness that pressed me through the end but left me feeling kind of ill. Maybe in a positive way? I'll need to sit with it to tell. You are going to want to check your content warnings before reading this one.

update: I am BACK to give baru cormorant her deserved five stars