❤️ loved this book because...
Even though I should have known it was coming, Baru took me in as much as she took in everyone else. The ending had me full on stop and stare at a wall for a few seconds to process what is happening!
Baru is a character that I love to hate. Incredibly smart, strong motivations, heavy internal struggles - and a traitor. In any other book she'd be a villain. I'm not sure she ISN'T a villain in this one!
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🐕 Good, steady pace
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[Published as The Traitor Baru Cormorant in the US]
Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people - even her soul.
When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her Fathers, Baru vows to hide her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way up enough rungs of power to put a stop to the Emperor's influence and set her people free.
As a natural savant, she is sent as an imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn - a post she worries will never get her the…
