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A review by handove
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Remember that name. Pronounce it in a special way, so that it repeats itself: Tain leads to Hu and Hu leads to Tain, and you never forget her, she loops through your mind like a cant of resistance, now and always she is chained starving and ferocious to the rock-face of your memory and she heaves you forward by the manacles of her death.
Once Hu had said, freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.
She said, without knowing the words until they left her mouth, "I stand for Tain Hu."
i am fucking inconsolable baru cormorant you've ruined my life
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Violence, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Gore, Homophobia, Blood, Vomit, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Sexual content