Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched
Founders Trilogy Series 2 Books Collection Set by Robert Jackson Bennett (Foundryside, Shorefall):
“Complex characters, magic that is tech and vice versa, a world bound by warring trade Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breathe!”—Tamora Pierce In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself—the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett. Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle.
As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy. “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.
Robert Jackson Bennett is a two-time award winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel, an Edgar Award winner for Best Paperback Original, and is also the 2010 recipient of the Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and a Philip K Dick Award Citation of Excellence. City of Stairs was shortlisted for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. City of Blades was a finalist for the 2015 World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. His eighth novel, FOUNDRYSIDE, will be available in the US on 8/21 of 2018 and the UK on 8/23.
Book 2 continues the odd magical/cyberpunk series in fine form. My main reason for not giving it more than 3 stars is that the world feels oddly-incompletely fleshed out. The secondary characters feel more like videogame NPCs that remain in stasis while not "on-screen", and similar for the world outside the city. That said, reading the book felt like watching an exciting movie set in a unique (!) world, so if I could, I'd give it 3.5 stars, but it doesn't feel like a "really like," either.