The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #3) by Seth Dickinson (Tor Books, 2020)

★★★★★

A double agent working to shatter the empire she serves finally obtains the power she covets, but its use will devastate millions of innocent people.

I was mega-hype about this book, and Dickinson does not disappoint in the least. We get a ton of plot and character development, and everything feels polished in a way The Monster Baru Cormorant sometimes did not. (I wrote a spoiler-y, tinfoil-y review of that entry here.)