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This is AWESOME!
No spoilers, no matter how much I want to go on and on about all the great things in this sequel, but I can say a few things.
If you loved how so many wonderful magical goodnesses came out of the magic system in Foundryside, how they could all argue reality out of commission, find new loopholes, reprogram it again, and do it all while being one of the biggest magical heists in modern fantasy, you will totally FREAK OUT when you see Shorefall.
Foundryside was all kinds of awesome an ...more
No spoilers, no matter how much I want to go on and on about all the great things in this sequel, but I can say a few things.
If you loved how so many wonderful magical goodnesses came out of the magic system in Foundryside, how they could all argue reality out of commission, find new loopholes, reprogram it again, and do it all while being one of the biggest magical heists in modern fantasy, you will totally FREAK OUT when you see Shorefall.
Foundryside was all kinds of awesome an ...more
Apr 21, 2022
Niki Hawkes - The Obsessive Bookseller
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it was ok
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[2.5/5 stars] After dishing out some of my highest praise for Foundryside, I’m disappointed to say I didn’t like Shorefall nearly as much as I thought I would.
Which is surprising considering 100% of the feedback I got after talking about Foundryside was that “Shorefall is even better!” So what has me the grumpy outlier in a sea of praise for this second book? Possibly inflated expectations. Probably an issue with the story components. And ...more
[2.5/5 stars] After dishing out some of my highest praise for Foundryside, I’m disappointed to say I didn’t like Shorefall nearly as much as I thought I would.
Which is surprising considering 100% of the feedback I got after talking about Foundryside was that “Shorefall is even better!” So what has me the grumpy outlier in a sea of praise for this second book? Possibly inflated expectations. Probably an issue with the story components. And ...more
Sancia, Orso, Berenice and Gregor are back, three years after the events of Foundryside. Clef is still inert, but the power of the merchant houses has waned as the Foundryside scrivers company has led an exodus of scrivers from them. But Ofelia Dandolo (Gregor's mother) is bringing a terrible force to the city of Tevanne, a creature that needs Valeria, Sancia and Clef to enact its plans for the world.
This is even more like City of Stairs than the last one, with our small group of friends up agai ...more
This is even more like City of Stairs than the last one, with our small group of friends up agai ...more
Sancia and company return in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Shorefall, the sequel to Foundryside. I was eager to read more from this world that Bennett has built and am grateful to NetGalley for the opportunity to read the ARC.
The former slave and her friends have set up a scrivers business that allows for sharing of information among like minded independent workers. Sancia, Bernice, Orso and Gregor are working to overthrow the campos whose power and wealth keep so many in Tevanne poor- and they use ...more
The former slave and her friends have set up a scrivers business that allows for sharing of information among like minded independent workers. Sancia, Bernice, Orso and Gregor are working to overthrow the campos whose power and wealth keep so many in Tevanne poor- and they use ...more
This was awesome!
We reconnect with the gang from book one, who now have their own foundry. They complete their first heist in years on one of the major campos (setting up a lexicon mirroring technique that plays a big part of what happens later), but are not given a chance to enjoy their success as Valeria, a construct, warns them seriously bad stuff is coming. As in hierophant bad stuff.
What follows is one horrifying situation after another, with the friends getting increasingly battered and w ...more
We reconnect with the gang from book one, who now have their own foundry. They complete their first heist in years on one of the major campos (setting up a lexicon mirroring technique that plays a big part of what happens later), but are not given a chance to enjoy their success as Valeria, a construct, warns them seriously bad stuff is coming. As in hierophant bad stuff.
What follows is one horrifying situation after another, with the friends getting increasingly battered and w ...more
This was a step down from Foundryside, but still enjoyable. I was close to deciding that I would not read the third book, but things got a lot better at the end, and now I do want to see how this series ends.
I think there are a few reasons this did not work for me as well, but I think the main problem is something shared with the first book but a lesser issue there: The Villain. The first book's antagonist was pretty weak I thought, but they were only revealed towards the end and did not get tha ...more
I think there are a few reasons this did not work for me as well, but I think the main problem is something shared with the first book but a lesser issue there: The Villain. The first book's antagonist was pretty weak I thought, but they were only revealed towards the end and did not get tha ...more
In book 1 of this series, the magic in this world caught my attention. The ability to scrive and re-write reality is interesting, as is Sancia's ability to convince objects that reality is different than their original design. That book left a lot of these concepts to explore, and that exploration was the center of this story. I thought it was well done, although a bit mind-bending :).
For me though the best part of the book is the friendship between the main characters. There are fun heists and ...more
For me though the best part of the book is the friendship between the main characters. There are fun heists and ...more
Dec 16, 2018
Christina Pilkington
marked it as tbr-future
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