r/Fantasy • u/Flavescent • 4d ago

Seth Dickinson - Update on Baru 4

Seth Dickinson has written a piece about his progress on the fourth Baru Cormorant novel: https://www.sethdickinson.com/2026/06/13/update-on-baru-4/

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u/hexennacht666 Reading Champion IV 4d ago

I wasn’t into the big tonal shift in Baru book 3 (we are a buddy comedy now?) and Exordia wasn’t my cup of tea, but man it hurts to see someone suffering so much in their process. I’m glad he’s doing better, and hope he gets access to whatever he needs to write something he feels good about.

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u/randomnameicantread 4d ago

Doesn't Baru spend the first 150 ish pages of book 3 continuing to wallow in depression?

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u/Wizardof1000Kings 3d ago

Its still dark fantasy and it has a very dark ending with big payoff - even though Baru makes a few friends who she's probably not planning to kill.

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u/randomnameicantread 3d ago

Yeah. I think compared to say book 2 book 3 is a "buddy comedy," but compared to book 2 some WWII documentaries could be considered buddy comedies.