The Monster Baru Cormorant
core novel 2018 The Masquerade
Record
| First published | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.89 (8,152 ratings, collected 2026-08-24) |
| Page count | 458 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765380746 |
Synopsis
The Monster Baru Cormorant continues the story after the events of The Traitor Baru Cormorant, with Baru now operating under the secret identity of the cryptarch Agonist, a hidden power broker embedded within the very empire she has sworn to bring down. To reach a position from which she might finally strike against the Masquerade, Baru has already sacrificed her closest relationships and much of who she once was, and she carries both a fractured mind and a mysterious wound from her earlier choices. Pursued by a mutinous admiral and leading a crew of former adversaries she must somehow hold together, she sets out on an expedition in search of the secret of immortality, a discovery she hopes to use to ignite open war against the empire she serves in secret.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Masquerade
- Series: The Masquerade core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Seth Dickinson
Notes
- From the series record (The Masquerade): Geopolitical/economic epic fantasy following Baru Cormorant's infiltration of the Empire of Masks. A fourth and concluding novel has been discussed by the author since 2018 but remains unwritten and unannounced as of this research (2026); correctly excluded as unpublished.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Masquerade: position 2 of 3: previous The Traitor Baru Cormorant (2015) · next The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (2020)
Sources
- https://www.sethdickinson.com/the-traitor-baru-cormorant/
- https://reactormag.com/baru-cormorant-fourth-novel-seth-dickinson-the-masquerade/
- https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/seth-dickinson/the-monster/9781447281221
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