Foundryside by
Robert Jackson Bennett
🌟🌟🌟1/2
I used to read much more from the fantasy genre but as I age
and as the political climate becomes more depressingly chaotic, I find fantasy
to be too dark, therefore my fantasy reading chops are rusty to say the
least. This book appealed to me because
the synopsis reminded me of the Mistborn
trilogy, which I enjoyed. The setting of
this is a world dominated by a handful of merchant compounds and a magic system
that uses sigils written on objects to manipulate their purpose so that it
eventually resembles modern technology.
The story centers on Sanchia, a young woman who is the only known human
to be scrived with sigils which causes her to hear other sigils commands. If this sounds complicated, it is at first, but
becomes easier as the book progresses.
The characters were well developed and interesting. My biggest problem with the book, and this
could be due to my decreased fantasy reading, is that it involved more action
than relationship building which felt really lacking and made connections to
the characters hard to form. Overall,
though, this is an interesting start to a fantasy series and I will probably
keep reading. I received a digital ARC
of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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