Recently read: The Traitor Baru Comorant

I just finished reading The Traitor Baru Comorant by Seth Dickinson. It was a powerful story that pulled me in, and was compelling read. I will not, however, be reading the sequels, nor will I recommend it to anyone who wants at least a hopeful ending. From start to finish, the novel is a tragedy, and that tragedy is colonialism and what it does to people and cultures. Nobody wins; nobody gets a happy ending. Everybody loses, and most of the secondary characters in the cast that you might come to care about die futilely.

So no, not reading any further in this series. I got this one free thanks to the Tor ebook club, so I didn't waste any money on it. The Tor ebook club has offered the first story in several major series; so far, of the ones I've read, I'm hooked on Murderbot, interested in picking up the sequel to Way of Kings, and will be happy to read all the spoilers about Baru Comorant on a wiki page, but do not want to get immersed in her stories ever again. So the Tor Ebook Club has batted 2-1 in getting me interested in buying books they publish. It'll be interesting to see how some of the other books I've pulled down fare.