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5 out of 5 stars
By
Mimi
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09-25-15
A triumph of a debut!
A terribly cunning display of the untrustworthy narrator (it's in the title, after all!) Baru is an incredibly engaging protagonist, and this fantastical political thriller keeps you guessing about loyalties, love, and what drives a person to ultimate treachery. This narrative weaves a spectacular warning to the readers: of social injustice, imperialism and the profound danger and power that comes from being truly alone in your mind. Machiavellian machinations in a spectacular feat of world building. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Matthew Harvey
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08-23-16
Great story, terrible reader
This is an incredibly incentive and gripping story. The audio book narrator, however, seems not to have been familiar with the English words "duchy" and "elided," which was frustrating and distracting.
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1 out of 5 stars
By
Iron Duke
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02-10-16
Listen hard to the sample before you buy
The performance is awful. Actually, it's beyond awful. The narrator reads the entire book at the same plodding pace with no intonation, inflection or emotion. When there's no personal pronoun in the text, you'll have no idea if spoken text is by a man or a woman, let alone who they are. Improper annunciation left me really struggling with the fantasy-style names of people and places, many of which are very similar. Listen to the audio sample and decide if you can live with 14 hours of it.
The production isn't great either for not only are there some edit mid-sentence which are completely obvious, there are even a couple of bad splices causing a bit of a stutter.
I found it a painful listen which totally ruined the book for me.
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5 out of 5 stars
By
krishna a
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12-29-15
Best of the year
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Traitor Baru Cormorant?
The end,even though i worked it out it still had an impact.
Which character – as performed by Christine Marshall – was your favourite?
Tain hu
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
money conquers
Any additional comments?
On of the best novels of the year
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