Marathon (shadow’s version)’s Reviews > The Traitor Baru Cormorant > Status Update

i’m a day behind schedule 3
there’s just too much to say in a little update like this. this book is just so thematically tight with such concise use of words. i have a huge fondness for paper books (i need to get myself copies of the series! how could i have overlooked this!) but it’d be nice to have an e book so i could easily search for words when they come up again in later chapters. so subtle!

this book is so hopeless sometimes 😞 but also i’m picking up so much more on reread couldn’t be happier.

i think i can hit a four day reread
but! thematically and plot wise everything picked up the the start of book 2 is laid out in the first chapters of this one! how great is that! this is insane so far on the reread the way clues and hints and laid out for how book one unfolds but also the threads of the greater world that are laid down for book 2 so far…. ah!!! so good!

i guess the thing about preemptively stopping a rebellion is that you didn’t really stop a rebellion because a rebellion never happened because you didn’t let it but there was no rebellion and so you didn’t stop anything

cultivate inflation power

Xate Yawa is giving some real Eadric Streona vibes and i do not trust her. also Aurdwynn is not very big if it only takes two days to get from the south to the north.

okay i have questions about the mountain range and the ability of any army to constantly invade through it. we’ve already talked about how easily defensible the mountains are. is that supposed to only be true from one side?