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

So Baru is the masked emperor??

Final 7% is still over an hour of listening time.

Wait. YAWA LOBOTOMIZED BARU?!?!!!!

I really prefer Baru with Ulyu Xe. She allows Baru be free to be herself. She needs less sexual and emotional angst and more freedom. She’ll thrive in an open relationship with Xe.

Aminata is literally the only earnest person in this story.

Wait. Kindalana had a child in Falcrest? That no one in the Mbo knows about?? A Falcresti child? Or a child of Abdumasi? She was a teenager! Who fathered the child?

She’s negotiating with a madwoman. The Brain is INSANE! And this is good because we’re seeing bribery at her economic games. In Aurdwynn she succeeded because the people believed. Now, she’s dealing with a crazy. How do you win economic warfare when you’re trying to negotiate with a cult worshipper? Interesting.

The Cancrioth cult is full of crazy superstition. Their power and relevance will be in whether Baru can manipulate them to her aims. I'm not sure how possible that is, without her dooming herself to taking the cancer. Is her death worth her purpose? I'm not sure. That makes her a messiah and implies that after all her travails since, she is no different than Traitor Baru Cormorant.

I'm afraid Baru is going to take the Cancrioth, which is gross.

This family reunion was such a rich, beautiful and important scene. I’m rooting for Baru and her Taranoki family.