![]() ![]() ![]() In Baru’s effort to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest from within, she has risen to the position of cryptarch, part of the invisible cabal that controls the Throne from the shadows. ![]() The dense but brilliant third volume of Dickinson’s The Masquerade series… sees Baru Cormorant, haunted by memories of the woman she loved and lost, pushed even further into her self-destructive, all-consuming quest to save her family. But my favorite coverage of this series is Publishers Weekly‘s starred review of the third volume here’s an excerpt. Cherryh’s early planetary romances and Samuel Delany’s revisionist Nevèrÿonfantasies.” Tor.com provides a handy refresher on the first two volumes if you’re the kind of person who likes to dive right into the third book in a series (i.e. At NPR Amal El-Mohtar called the first book “literally breathtaking,” and at Locus Online Paul Di Filippo labeled it “a tasty blend of C.J. The Tyrant Baru Cormorant arrived from Tor last month, and it wraps up the trilogy (maybe? who knows!) with a bang. So we’re here today to celebrate the arrival of the third book in the Baru Cormorant series… pardon me, The Masquerade series by Seth Dickinson. ![]() Like we’d let a tiny detail like that get in the way of cake!) But what if it’s not clear if the series is complete? In that case, a crack team of literary forensic analysts assesses whether the series is likely to continue, before we fire up the cake mixer. Whenever a fantasy trilogy wraps up, we bake at cake at the Black Gate rooftop headquarters. ![]()
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