[book post] The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Glancing over reviews of this book, I’d gotten the sense this was The Book ^TM for sharp postcolonial commentary in a fantasy setting, a means of examining the agonies and excesses and contradictions of empire, to look seriously at how difficult it is to change a system from within, and so on.

Baru Cormorant is not not that book. And yet.

( only very mild spoilers. also: sorry, i’m gonna be THAT GUY who doesn’t love the book everyone else loves, i swear i’m not doing it on purpose )