The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade Book 1)

Exciting, feels realistic, war strategy, a lot of innuendo (and smugness? — everyone feels very clever). Passages of feeling powerful, passages of feeling completely powerless. I would recommend it with a content warning: "Cruel and depressing".

An incredible read, unlike anything I've ever read before. And that ending! Like a punch to the heart. I've never been as scared as I am eager to read a sequel as I am to read The Monster…