Review – The Traitor Baru Cormorant

The Masquerade Series, Book 1

by Seth Dickinson

A truly grimdark political anti-imperialist epic fantasy
with a sapphic protagonist wielding fiscal policy as her superpower

The most brutally calculating sapphic heroine I’ve ever met. I LOVED her.

Also the closest I’ve seen to a MC personifying my day job. Personally I found her blunt use of monetary policy unfettered by having to go through a committee so fun (possibly the most fantastical part of the book, but joyous to watch). H...