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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by [Dickinson, Seth]
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Product Details

  • File Size: 1841 KB
  • Print Length: 400 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1447281136
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (September 15, 2015)
  • Publication Date: September 15, 2015
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00V351EOM
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This book far exceeded my expectations. I picked it up because Kameron Hurley had been raving about it for almost a year, and thought "What the heck, I'll bite". I'm damn glad I did.

My twitter synopsis of the world is a low fantasy fantasy-Nazi political roman a clef vibe. The book clearly talks about racial divides, persecution of people based on gender, race, and sexual orientation, and the feelings of alienation, but, like IRL, they're just part of the background. They're the status quo that the protagonist has to over come.

Speaking of the protagonist, it's not always easy to like her. The one flaw I had with the book, is that it seems she only needs a night of rest and she knows the next step, the next ingenious plan. I wouldn't go so far as to call this book rife with deus ex machina, the levels of foreshadowing in this book prevent that, but the entire book does seem to come off as one giant Xanatos gambit.

I really enjoyed how the book played different concepts off one another, cultural identity vs. progress, personal desires vs. greater good, what people say they want vs. what people need. The author adroitly navigates these lines, and crafts a pretty deep, engaging story.

Highly recommended to anyone who enjoyed Articles of the Federation by Keith Candido or the Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. This book will definitely be on my Hugo list.
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Dickinson covers in one book what it would take George RR Martin three books to write. Baru is fast paced, with a perfect blend of plot and character development that brings the title character more trials, successes, and setbacks than most books of this length could manage to include. Each plot beat, and there are many, comes off as well-orchestrated and unexpected. Dickinson has put a great deal of thought into his plotting, and it tells as Baru never slows and keeps pushing forward unrelentingly until the very end. Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you have things to do), this means that Baru is hard to put down. With the pacing of a thriller and the world-building of the most respectable fantasies, Baru satisfies on every front you could ask from a modern fantasy novel. My favorite thing about Baru is that despite all the satisfying battles and assassinations, the warfare of Baru is fought through economics and trade. I can't emphasize enough how interesting this is; if you know nothing about feudal economics, don't worry. You don't have to know anything about numbers to grasp how important the politics of trade are to Baru's world. The complex web of economic loyalties and debts that holds the world of Baru together is more interesting (and a hell of a lot fresher) than any magic system I've encountered in a fantasy novel.

If you enjoy traditional fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, spy novels, or world-building epics, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don't read the most readable fantasy of 2015. This book is awesome.
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While I enjoyed The Traitor Baru Cormorant, and will read the second book in the series when it arrives, I felt at times I was being giving a sociology lecture by someone steeped in women's and LBGT studies and political economy. The story is fairly engrossing and the games played by the characters are fun to watch. Unfortunately, the characters do not have much depth -- each of them a trope designed to fit the puzzle of the book more than an actual, living, breathing human being. As to the kicker at the end, Seth Dickinson gives so many hints throughout the book that you would have to be blind not to have seen it coming by the middle of the novel. Though he handles it well in spite of that.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant is one of the better sci-fi books of 2015. However, 2015 has been a somewhat fallow year for sci-fi and fantasy, so I give this praise in a somewhat muted manner. If you enjoy sci-fi and fantasy books with a liberal political bent, you might want to first try Cameron Hurley's The Mirror Empire from 2014.
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The worldbuiliding was interesting and believable at first, but when you get too close a look at how perfectly Oppressive the Oppressive Evil Empire is, credibility starts to slack off. The prisoners they allow to escape in order to recapture them just to imbue with the necessary hopelessness (at apparent risk and waste of manpower), the absolutely perfect brainwashing (an oxymoronic concept, considering the fiddliness of brains), the whole thing about the true government of this perfectly oppressive empire being in the complete control of operatives (in a world where communications is at eighteenth century speed) who work at distrustful cross-purposes and yet are somehow a twisted meritocracy...my mind just put the whole thing down and backed away. I find it hard to believe in THAT perfect a tyranny run by imperfect human beings.

But all this could have been overlooked were it not for the main problem...Baru Cormorant herself. As a child I could relate to her...as an adult, I read her without feeling her. This is a huge problem. She faces huge conflicting loyalties, that SHOULD matter profoundly to her - and so to We the Readers as well. Instead, I was thinking that she didn't seem to care deeply - and so, looking through her eyes, I couldn't either...and the impact of plot reveals was diminished as well.

Now, I get that the author had a big problem on his hands, in that his byzantine plots and counterplots require withholding crucial information from the reader till his Big Reveal... And if Baru got too emotional about it, it might clue the reader too early to what that Reveal would be. I still think, however, that he could have skillfully chosen to show us more anguish and conflict within her without showing us the source of that anguish and conflict.
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