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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

“Narrated by a young woman seeking revenge, Seth Dickinson’s first novel, “The Traitor Baru Cormorant,” is a fascinating tale of political intrigue and national unrest. Baru Cormorant is just a girl when the Empire of Masks conquers her island. The new rulers create roads and better sanitation, but their strong-fisted policies erode the country’s economy and punish the people cruelly if they don’t adhere to a rigid code of sexual conduct. Baru decides that the only way to fight such oppression is to infiltrate the government. But just how brutal will she have to become to undermine an empire? Dickinson moves the plot steadily along as he explores issues of sexual oppression and colonial power.” — Washington Post

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

“Be she traitor or patriot by the end of the book—to who might be the more pertinent question—Baru Cormorant must be the most memorable character fantasy fiction will feature in 2015. Happily, the narrative Dickinson designs around her is every inch as rich and convincing. His debut is paced like a race—excepting some slight slowdown in advance of a surprisingly action-packed last act—and never less than poetically put.

All told, The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a devastating debut—and doubly so due to a twist in the tale I’ll be damned if Dickinson doesn’t nail. A financial fantasy reminiscent of nothing so as The Folding Knife, it’s filling, chilling and thoroughly thrilling.” — Tor.com

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

“The Traitor Baru Cormorant is riveting, immersive, and tough to talk about without spoilers. To give away too much is to risk losing some of the tension that will keep you compulsively turning pages, though the ending is less a surprise than an inevitability toward which you careen helplessly. The writing is so tight, the plot so well-constructed, that if you were to surreptitiously read the ending first ­or the original short story of the same name­ you would still find yourself addicted.” — Barnes & Noble SFF Blog

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson is an Amazon Best Book of the Month for September!

The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Cinder Spires 1) by Jim Butcher and The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson are both B&N Bookseller’s Picks for September 2015!