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

This section is a bit heavy handed. Yes, I know Bel needs to be taken off the board but am I supposed to believe Iscend's powers of persuasion are so good that he 1) goes back to substance abuse 2) is so immediately off his rocker? If we had some scenes before this demonstrating the tension between him and Heigyl...

Poor Baru! She gets almost lobotomized, almost dies from meningitis, almost stops a genocide, and now on top of everything no one wants to go to the ball with her :(

WE STAY WINNING #PHYSICS #MATH

"[...] that power comes not from brute strength but from the control of the context in which strength is deployed?” lets talk about THESIS

Tain Shir is my favorite archetype of character. Maybe I'm too mando-pilled but its literally just what if there was a woman who was cool as hell. The ability to face and understand the indignities and horrors of war without trying to absolve or justify herself. "All those she's killed had mothers. All of them. None were worth any more or less than hers."

I genuinely thought revanchist was a made up star wars word and encountering it here threw me. I guess Darth Revan was named after the revanchists and not the other way around.

It makes me really happy to see Aminata and Baru's friendship has survived. They've both done some fucked up shit & they are both still ordered to act against each other but! Friends 🥰💜

"Yawa clearly hid [cocaine] to weaken me." Baru WHAT are you talking about?

I'm trying SO hard to figure out if the magic is real or not. Anyway shout out uranium sorcerers; I need to find out what the real world basis is.

"By dawn I would have her dead on my lobotomy pick, and a gentled new woman cut to life in her body." 🤢