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The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, 1)

Seth Dickinson

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the critically-acclaimed debut novel from Seth Dickinson, one of the rising new stars in fantasy.

Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up and see red sails on the horizon. The Empire of Masks is coming, armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. They will conquer Baru’s island, rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers.

But Baru is patient. She'll swallow her hate, join the Masquerade, and claw her way high enough up the rungs of power to set her people free. To test her loyalty, the Masquerade will send Baru to bring order to distant Aurdwynn, a snakepit of rebels, informants, and seditious dukes.

But Baru is a savant in games of power, as ruthless in her tactics as she is fixated on her goals. In the calculus of her schemes, all ledgers must be balanced, and the price of liberation paid in full.

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[Necromancy and Lesbians and Nuns OH MY!\ \ Come on, you know I'm absolutely OBSESSED with The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. It's one of those series that when people say they didn't read it, I honestly think they should try again. Maybe try the audiobook read by Moira Quirk instead. Maybe read my annotations on my blog first so you know what's going on. Maybe LET ME READ IT TO YOU BECAUSE IT'S REALLY EPIC OK?!?!?!\ \ And I know. It's a crazy complex plot with tons of easter eggs and the second book has an unreliable narrator and the third book is told by a previously lobotomized person with no recollection of who they are, but I just LIKE IT OK?\ \ But there's one major problem. There's nothing else like it, so the book hangover you'll get from reading this (as of today) incomplete series is really gonna suck. And while they're nothing like it out there, there are a couple things that might give you the same vibes.\ \

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - Does it have lesbian necromancers in space? No, but it does have six disaster bisexuals with magical powers who are all mentally ill and in love with each other in a challenge that could give them ultimate power, and an author who is way smarter than me, so you see where I'm getting the similar vibes? I need to do a full review of this series because I just finished it and I am NOT WELL.\ \
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