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The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
Seth Dickinson
★★★★★· Published 2015· 399 pages
A conquered girl becomes an accountant for the empire that destroyed her home, planning to burn it down from inside. A ruthless, brainy fantasy — the ending wrecked me.
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★ 5On the Calculation of Volume I
Solvej Balle
A woman wakes to the same day, November 18th, over and over, and Balle turns that premise into something quietly hypnotic. The first in a series I did not expect to be so hooked on.
★ 5Elsewhere
Alexis Schaitkin
A remote town where mothers occasionally just vanish, and no one questions it. Schaitkin builds eerie, dreamlike unease. I couldn't stop.
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
Megan Whalen Turner
A quest fantasy narrated by a cocky young thief, and then that ending. I did not see it coming.