The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)

, #1

399 pages

Langue : English

Publié 15 septembre 2015

ISBN :
978-0-7653-8072-2
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The Traitor Baru Cormorant ( BAH-roo) is a 2015 hard fantasy novel by Seth Dickinson, and his debut novel. It was published as The Traitor in the United Kingdom. It is based on a short story Dickinson wrote in 2011 for Beneath Ceaseless Skies called "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds". The novel follows Baru, a brilliant young woman who, educated in the schools of the imperial power that subjugated her homeland, sets out to gain power to subvert the empire from within. A sequel, The Monster Baru Cormorant, was released on 30 October 2018. A third novel, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, was released on August 11, 2020.

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Gut punch, not feel good but enthralling enough to keep going.

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Wow, I don't feel good after having read this book. It really got me going, with the introduction a bit slow but really set in the motivations for the protagonist. I was ecstatic to read about a character that wants to save her country from colonisation.

Throughout the book, I was hoping to be rewarded with a satisfying conclusion. Instead, I got my hopes broken and am a bit surprised with the protagonist's physical state. I'm not sure how she will fare in the next books...

... Which I'm definitly reading. But maybe not just yet. I need to recuperate after this ending...