kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight

• Eldritch horror veering into personal body horror; • divine machinations; • a prickly, distrustful heroine just doing her best to survive under awful circumstances; • a codependent telepathic bond that turns into one of the most sincerely written, vulnerable romances I've ever read?; • the most devastating use of the 'kitten' petname imaginable??? ????? ?? ?And the way the author writes relationships - not just romantic ones, but friendships, familial bonds, former lovers and betrayed childhood friends - and packs so much unsaid feeling behind each line of dialogue, is frankly enviable.

reading baru cormorant book 2: i hope the next book is called The DEAD Baru Cormorant