The Traitor Baru Cormorant
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Our view
“The Traitor Baru Cormorant” is fantasy in which the weapons are economics and political calculation. Baru watches an empire absorb her homeland through trade and resolves to bring it down from within; some readers praise her as a protagonist and the intrigue for keeping them guessing. Dark and cerebral, it opens The Masquerade series and favours scheming over swordplay.
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About the book
The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a 2015 hard fantasy novel by Seth Dickinson, and his debut novel. It was published as The Traitor in the United Kingdom. It is based on Dickinson's short story "The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Her Field-General, and Their Wounds" (2011), which was published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
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7.97.9 / 10 - The Monster Baru Cormorant
7.97.9 / 10 - The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 351 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 70% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 20 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 331 | 94% |
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