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The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
4.5
adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Remember that name. Pronounce it in a special way, so that it repeats itself: Tain leads to Hu and Hu leads to Tain, and you never forget her, she loops through your mind like a cant of resistance, now and always she is chained starving and ferocious to the rock-face of your memory and she heaves you forward by the manacles of her death.

Once Hu had said, freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.

She said, without knowing the words until they left her mouth, "I stand for Tain Hu."

i am fucking inconsolable baru cormorant you've ruined my life

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