Foundryside by Robert Jackson BennettMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
"God. Why are you doing all this? Why are you out here risking your life?“
“Is justice such an odd thing to desire?“
“Justice is a luxury."
"No, it is not. It is a right. And it is a right long denied... The chance for real, genuine reform for this city... I would shed every drop of blood in my body for such a thing."
As much as we try not to judge a book by its cover... when the cover is THIS habdsome, one is dutybound to look it up on Goodreads. ☺ And when Brandon Sanderson gives it five ratings, one simply HAS to give it a try!
FOUNDRYSIDE is the first book of a trilogy, and I simply cannot wait to read the rest of it! I also can't help but think what a glorious movie series it would make. Heart-pounding action, characters that are both morally ambiguous yet endearing, and a spell-run world that is both exceedingly strange and familiar to our own... Written in terse and highly effective prose that seizes you from the first page and doesn't let go until you've finished.
Imagine a world where people can alter reality in small ways by writing down spells on every day objects, in a process called "scriving."
Imagine a desperate thief with the power to touch something and know everything about it... who ends up stealing an inanimate object, only to discover that it is conscious and can alter written spells in major ways.
Imagine the desperate search for answers that ensues, all the while dodging would-be jailers and killers. That's what Foundryside is, and I can't wait to re-enter this dark world when Book 2 is out!!
On a more personal note, I haven't had this big a literary crush on someone ever since Mr. Darcy and John Thornton. 😂 Let's go and add Gregor Dandolo to the list, shall we? A life lived for a cause bigger than himself is sooooo attractive.
"Don't hate Captain Dandolo... I think he's broken, just like you and me. He's just trying to fix the world because it's the only way he knows to fix himself."
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