Jessica’s Reviews > The Tyrant Baru Cormorant > Status Update

Okay so I like and find interesting that the different cultures in this world have different gender arrangements, but there doesn't seem to be any explanation as to why. What led to the stakhi having more distanced relations or the oriati having a third gender or the taranoki having polyandrous marriages? Gender relations, as power relations, don't appear out of nowhere and hesychast's eugenic explanations are bad.

I can't believe this book hasn't mentioned scurvy yet... how can it be a part of this series without the scurvy mentions

Noooo don't give baru another chemical escape... it's bad for her, but it's really bad for everyone else... miss cormorant should NOT be on cocaine

it sometimes feels like the oriati mbo culture is mary-sueified but also whatever it's nice to have some cultural element in this be, like, worth rooting for. but also woah you have multiple genders and your social system is based on generosity and kindness and the people you're fighting want to institute a eugenics program and rule your land? who should I root for here 🤔

The first book had very obvious parallels to historical empires/ideas. The second continued and acknowledged its connections to the real world in the end acknowledgments. This third one fully starts with a blurb about vasco de gama. Yes, Mr. Dickinson I understand that this series is actually secretly about our world I got that from the eugenics/hygiene as oppressive tools and central banking policy parts