The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Baru Cormorant will pay any price to liberate her world — even if it makes her a monster.When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home and murders one of her fathers, Baru makes a vow: I will never be powerless again. She'll swallow her hate, join the Empire’s civil service, and claw her way...
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Baru Cormorant will pay any price to liberate her world — even if it makes her a monster.When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home and murders one of her fathers, Baru makes a vow: I will never be powerless again. She'll swallow her hate, join the Empire’s civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free.Suspicious of her loyalty, the Masquerade e
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00V351EOM
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: The Masquerade (#1)
This book starts by following Baru Cormorant as a young girl in Taranoke when her homeland is taken over by the Masquerade (or the Empire of Masks since they wear masks as part of their public personas). So we see the colonization and the start of the erasure of an indigenous culture and people and ...
I'm clearly in the minority on this one if you look at reviews, so it was somewhat heartening to meet up with my book club and discover they also had lukewarm feelings. Here's the thing: Dickinson crafts lovely prose. Sentence for sentence he is absolutely masterful. There were passages in this book...
Ok, so here's the thing... I almost gave up on this book a couple of times. It just seemed like it was dragging inexorably, and I didn't feel much of anything for the world the author was busy building or the characters in it... but I kept coming back to the reviews on Goodreads. Most of them were ...
I think this might be one of the most important books I've ever read. Forget that "genre fiction" disclaimer, this is the real deal. I don't even know what to say. Anything I do say may be too telling. Okay, I'll say this: this is a story we are, on some level, all familiar with. We know the histor...
I put this book down feeling as though I’d been slapped in the face and, in a sense, I had.The Traitor is an exquisitely well-written book, with brilliant characterization and a wonderful world that I would like to know more about (will there be a sequel? Please, please say there will be a sequel!) ...
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