Noe’s Reviews > The Traitor Baru Cormorant > Status Update

This started off so strong and I really want to see where it goes but the prose is just a bit too cold and technical for me 😭I understand the point is that baru has been stripped of any ability to develop a sense of self, but at the point where all she thinks about is math and political chess for hundreds of pages it starts to feel like poor character writing. I'm struggling to stay invested