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** spoiler alert ** Another unexpectedly harrowing (but totally worthwhile!) read -- I've had this on my reading list since a friend read it right when it came out, and finally got to it now. And last night, I finished it at about 1am, and...

...well. It's going to take me a while to recover.

First off, I loved the steely distance in Baru's narration -- that's a tough thing to maintain over the course of a book, and Dickinson doesn't falter. Every ounce of mercy is calculated and restrained by Baru's judgment, even her response to Duchess Tain Hu (who is utterly fantastic; I spent most of the book hoping she would come rescue me).

Aurdwynn, the country which Baru must financially manage, is a chaotic mixture of rebellion and tension between its many dukes -- but somehow, through the force of her will and her need for vengeance (and not just vengeance, but total obliteration) against those who took over her home, Baru manages. She manages it so well she ends up leader of a rebellion, and a would-be queen.

...but nothing is simple, and everything hurts. Even Baru's driving pain -- losing her home, and one of her fathers, the loss of a whole culture -- only escapes her armor on rare occasions, but it's all the more poignant when it does.

I kept hoping, through the last fifty pages, that Dickinson wouldn't go there -- but it would have cheated the story, and Baru's character growth, if she hadn't faced down the last test. And now no one owns her, no one has their hooks in her, and she's a power behind the Throne.

The Masquerade is in very, very deep trouble.

I'm eager to see what comes next -- you know, after I dry my tears, because those last fifty pages make Room 101 seem like a spa day, especially because Baru does all of it willingly, in pursuit of her goal --- there are so many tantalizing hints of what will come next (what's beyond the sea?? It's qunari. I know it's qunari), but I know the next book will gut me when it arrives.

Oh, Baru.


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The Traitor Baru Cormorant The Masquerade Seth Dickinson 2015765380722 Books Reviews

This was a very stressful read. I always felt on edge like I had to hold my breath with every page turn. Some plot always seemed to be going on and it is never clear who can be trusted. This book was definitely the ultimate game of political intrigue and Baru is a very good player.

I had to put this book several times just to process everything that was going on. If you're looking for a relaxing read then this is not the book for you. But if you want an intricate plot that is always twisting and turning then you should pick this one up.

The characters are also very complex. This is a book that is filled with hard choices, wrong choices and very few choices that seem right. Which for me always makes a book interesting.

Overall it was a fun if stressful ride and hope to read more soon
“I will remake the world so that no woman will ever have to do this again.”

I’ve been sitting here, looking at a blank word document, for almost twenty minutes. I don’t even know how to possibly start a review for this book. I can honestly say that I have never read anything, in my entire life, like The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. This book was so very quiet, but it spoke so very loudly to me. But this is easily one of the best books I’ve read in my entire life.

Baru Cormorant learns from a very young age that her home will never be safe. For the first seven years of her life, she loved her home with her mother and two fathers. But that all changed the day Masquerade soldiers conquered Taranoke. This book heavily talks about colonization and how the colonizers will take everything, while expecting you to be grateful for them "liberating" the natives.

“Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.”

This book also heavily talks about gender roles and sexuality. Baru is a lesbian, and it is truly her greatest fear in this world, since one of her fathers got taken away for being “unhygienic”. This is a dark book, and these are constant themes that completely are the reason Baru does the things that she does. But this was a very hard read at times, so please use caution.

Content and trigger warnings for homophobia (always in a negative light, but still very abundant throughout the story), racism, colonialism, sexism, misogynistic comments, talk of genital mutilation. torture, murder, death, animal deaths, graphic violence, loss of a loved one, inhumane conditioning treatments, off-screen rape and forced reproduction, and constant war themes. Also, a queer character does die in this book, and it hurts, a lot, so use extra caution.

But Baru plays the part that the colonizers want her to; she leaves her home, she becomes a student, she becomes a powerful accountant, she becomes what the throne wants her to be, and she never loses sight of her goals. Because Baru knows this is the only way she can truly free people from the oppressors who think they carry out their evil actions in the name of good. This is a book about a girl trying to break a seemingly unbreakable system, using the methods that her oppressors taught her, and it’s so smart, and so painful, and such a gift to the literary world.

I’ve never read a book that’s so multi-faceted before. Every page has a new angle that makes you completely reexamine the entire story. This story is so political, while also realistically depicting what war is like from the winning and losing sides, while completely putting the chaos and heartbreak at the forefront of the story. You won’t know who to trust, which is hilarious because Baru truly is a reliable narrator, but the set up just makes you not want to believe what you’re reading.

But ultimately, this is a book about power and all the terrible things people are willing to do to gain it. There are so many ways to find power and to be able to harness it for yourself. And during this entire book, we get to see Baru do everything in her power to try to carve out a substantial amount of power so that she will be able to change the world.

“This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.”
** spoiler alert ** Another unexpectedly harrowing (but totally worthwhile!) read -- I've had this on my reading list since a friend read it right when it came out, and finally got to it now. And last night, I finished it at about 1am, and...

...well. It's going to take me a while to recover.

First off, I loved the steely distance in Baru's narration -- that's a tough thing to maintain over the course of a book, and Dickinson doesn't falter. Every ounce of mercy is calculated and restrained by Baru's judgment, even her response to Duchess Tain Hu (who is utterly fantastic; I spent most of the book hoping she would come rescue me).

Aurdwynn, the country which Baru must financially manage, is a chaotic mixture of rebellion and tension between its many dukes -- but somehow, through the force of her will and her need for vengeance (and not just vengeance, but total obliteration) against those who took over her home, Baru manages. She manages it so well she ends up leader of a rebellion, and a would-be queen.

...but nothing is simple, and everything hurts. Even Baru's driving pain -- losing her home, and one of her fathers, the loss of a whole culture -- only escapes her armor on rare occasions, but it's all the more poignant when it does.

I kept hoping, through the last fifty pages, that Dickinson wouldn't go there -- but it would have cheated the story, and Baru's character growth, if she hadn't faced down the last test. And now no one owns her, no one has their hooks in her, and she's a power behind the Throne.

The Masquerade is in very, very deep trouble.

I'm eager to see what comes next -- you know, after I dry my tears, because those last fifty pages make Room 101 seem like a spa day, especially because Baru does all of it willingly, in pursuit of her goal --- there are so many tantalizing hints of what will come next (what's beyond the sea?? It's qunari. I know it's qunari), but I know the next book will gut me when it arrives.

Oh, Baru.