The Monster Baru Cormorant

Baru Cormorant's world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. To exact her revenge, she has clawed her way up razor-edged rungs of betrayal, sacrifice, and compromise, becoming the very thing she seeks to destroy.

Now she strides in the Masquerade's halls of power. To save the world, she must tear it asunder, and with it, all that remains of her soul.

The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's debut, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. It is a dense, politically heavy fantasy of empire, colonialism and economics, with additional point-of-view threads from Baru's former friend Aminata and the Oriati prince Tau-indi.