Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Times are changing and not for the better

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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CBR Bingo 3: Time Shorefall is the middle part of a trilogy and you can definitely tell; everything goes from bad to worse for nearly everyone, good and bad. The time element actually has several applications here: first, there’s a race against time as the good guys Sancia, Gregor, Orso, and Berenice try to stop the return of first hierophant Crasedes who is probably mega-evil, and when that doesn’t work, they discover Crasedes might be able to use scriving to manipulate time, or he’s somehow […]

“Learn what your city has forgotten. What men of power have forgotten time and time again, throughout history – that there is always, always something mightier.”

Shorefall (The Founders Trilogy, #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett

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I feel like Robert Jackson Bennett has a good storyteller’s head on him. I like the way he took the already awesome events of the first book and expanded on them, not just in scope (terrifying bad guy!) but in theme and character as well. This book absolutely 1000% avoids middle-book-in-a-trilogy syndrome. Stuff was happening 20-30% of the way through that you’d expect to happen at the end of a book. Sancia, Gregor, Bernice, and Orso are still together as a little band three years […]

Scrivers Create Marvellous Machines, Contend with Unspeakable Powers

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

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  I don’t know what my problem is, really I don’t. I love Robert Jackson Bennett’s works. And I really loved Foundryside, the first book in his Founders Trilogy. I knew Shorefall had been released Why did I take so long to get to it? Is it the pandemic? I’m going to blame the pandemic. Foundryside was a glorious blend of magical and political drama that had a really interesting premise: what if coding—known here as scriving—was actually magic, leaving to the development of whole […]



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