Aneel reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Fun adventure
4 stars
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I was looking for an adventure book after a few more character-heavy books, and this hit the spot.
I like the trope of a complex magic system or cosmology that the characters don't really understand, but are trying to figure out, and this worked for that.
I thought the writing itself was a little uneven, with some modern idioms in a non-modern setting. I'm also always mildly annoyed when an author makes up a word to stand in for "fucking" while leaving everything else the same. You're using "shit", just use "fuck" too.