A law that puts tomorrow’s weakest above the powers of today. A chance to heal, a story to tell, a dream to realize. Her freedom.īaru knows she can save her world. All she needs is a little more power to do it. But she’ll complete her work: finding a way to the top. She’ll prove herself a savant at the exercise of power. Their secrets are the secrets of empire and Baru will claim them at any cost. Armed with coin and ink, doctrine and compass, soap and lies. Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru will look up from the sand and see red sails on the horizon. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is a mic drop for epic fantasy.” -Max Gladstone “…a poet’s Dune, a brutal tale of empire, rebellion, fealty, and high finance that moves like a rocket and burns twice as hot. Get ready to have your heart ripped out through your throat.” - Kameron Hurley Dickinson is a sly, masterful writer who pulls no punches. You’ll be captivated from the very first page. She loves her home, island Taranoke, the warm place at the center of the world. Her father Salm knows how to kill, and why no one ever should. Her father Solit knows the smithy and the telescope. Her mother Pinion knows the hunt and the stars. “Storytelling that succeeds on both an epic and a powerfully intimate scale…” -Sunny Moraine “An extraordinary debut-powerful, complex, and passionate.” - Kij Johnson “…an amazing epic fantasy…I consider it an instant classic.” - Tiemen Zwaanīaru Cormorant wants to understand the world. If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes.“A beautiful, perfectly formed crystal of a novel…” - John Chu Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path-a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself?īaru's enemies close in from all sides. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions.not just in Falcrest, but all across the world.
The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them.īut the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with the "literally breathtaking" (NPR) The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third audiobook, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant.
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