Shorefall: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy, Band 2)
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“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s hoping to transform her city into something new. Something better. Together with allies Orso, Gregor, and Berenice, she’s about to strike a deadly blow against Tevanne’s cruel robber-baron rulers and wrest power from their hands for the first time in decades.
But then comes a terrifying warning: Crasedes Magnus himself, the first of the legendary hierophants, is about to be reborn. And if he returns, Tevanne will be just the first place to feel his wrath.
Thousands of years ago, Crasedes was an ordinary man who did the impossible: Using the magic of scriving—the art of imbuing objects with sentience—he convinced reality that he was something more than human. Wielding powers beyond comprehension, he strode the world like a god for centuries, meting out justice and razing empires single-handedly, cleansing the world through fire and destruction—and even defeating death itself.
Like it or not, it’s up to Sancia to stop him. But to have a chance in the battle to come, she’ll have to call upon a god of her own—and unlock the door to a scriving technology that could change what it means to be human. And no matter who wins, nothing will ever be the same.
The awe-inspiring second installment of the Founders Trilogy, Shorefall returns us to the world Robert Jackson Bennett created in his acclaimed Foundryside . . . and forges it anew.
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3.5 I loved Foundryside. It felt fresh and the characters and dialogues were fun. Shorefall wasn't quite as good. As so many fantasy epics, it suffers from the stakes being escalated unreasonably. It doesn't help that the antagonist(s) aren't really all that good either. Though i did enjoy the body horror that came along with it. The two distinct goals of the antagonists were also well done in my opinion. It's just the theatrics and some of the monologues that were a bit off-putting. Generally the heavy focus on action scenes and the slight lack of character development/dialogues were the book's greatest weakness for me. The finale was the best part of the book for me. It was slightly disappointed because it doesn't really conclude anything (2nd book syndrome i guess), but it's also cool because it dangled a lot of high concept stuff right in front of our noses and the action was done well. I really wish we would have gotten into the hive minds, distributed consciousness, vs. overwriting free will earlier. I also can't help but be disappointed that it didn't escalate into our heroes accidentally or intentionally creating a borg collective in the city. Would've been amazing. And pretty interesting in terms of how the antagonists might not be so wrong to eliminate or control tech to prevent humanity fucking itself over. The twinning was also amazing conceptually and done really well.
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“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s hoping to transform her city into something new. Something better. Together with allies Orso, Gregor, and Berenice, she’s about to strike a deadly blow against Tevanne’s cruel robber-baron rulers and wrest power from their hands for the first time in decades.
But then comes a terrifying warning: Crasedes Magnus himself, the first of the legendary hierophants, is about to be reborn. And if he returns, Tevanne will be just the first place to feel his wrath.
Thousands of years ago, Crasedes was an ordinary man who did the impossible: Using the magic of scriving—the art of imbuing objects with sentience—he convinced reality that he was something more than human. Wielding powers beyond comprehension, he strode the world like a god for centuries, meting out justice and razing empires single-handedly, cleansing the world through fire and destruction—and even defeating death itself.
Like it or not, it’s up to Sancia to stop him. But to have a chance in the battle to come, she’ll have to call upon a god of her own—and unlock the door to a scriving technology that could change what it means to be human. And no matter who wins, nothing will ever be the same.
The awe-inspiring second installment of the Founders Trilogy, Shorefall returns us to the world Robert Jackson Bennett created in his acclaimed Foundryside . . . and forges it anew.
Book Information
Posts
3.5 I loved Foundryside. It felt fresh and the characters and dialogues were fun. Shorefall wasn't quite as good. As so many fantasy epics, it suffers from the stakes being escalated unreasonably. It doesn't help that the antagonist(s) aren't really all that good either. Though i did enjoy the body horror that came along with it. The two distinct goals of the antagonists were also well done in my opinion. It's just the theatrics and some of the monologues that were a bit off-putting. Generally the heavy focus on action scenes and the slight lack of character development/dialogues were the book's greatest weakness for me. The finale was the best part of the book for me. It was slightly disappointed because it doesn't really conclude anything (2nd book syndrome i guess), but it's also cool because it dangled a lot of high concept stuff right in front of our noses and the action was done well. I really wish we would have gotten into the hive minds, distributed consciousness, vs. overwriting free will earlier. I also can't help but be disappointed that it didn't escalate into our heroes accidentally or intentionally creating a borg collective in the city. Would've been amazing. And pretty interesting in terms of how the antagonists might not be so wrong to eliminate or control tech to prevent humanity fucking itself over. The twinning was also amazing conceptually and done really well.