The Empire of Masks is coming to conqueror Baru’s home and rewrite her culture, criminalize her customs, and dispose of one of her fathers. Lets get into the details to see if this novel will work for you.īaru Cormorant lives a simple life on beach town with her two fathers when she sees red sails on the horizon. This is the kind of novel that I would have loved as sf (in a modern/post modern society) but the story reads as a fantasy in a premodern society. I will say that the elements that Seth Dickinson does introduce are done extremely well, but I was expecting more from this story until the ending. This book is almost entirely political maneuvering with little to no action, at least on the soldier level, and nothing in terms of fantastical elements. This is a difficult story to review not because of the writing style, characters, or the world itself but rather the way in which Seth Dickinson decides to tell Baru’s story with very slow pacing and the ultimate climax which seemed to come out of nowhere. It had to happen sooner or later, but I have finally come to review one of the most polarizing novels I have ever read.
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