Foundryside 🔥 (Founders #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Foundryside (Founders #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett |
Expected publication: August 21st 2018 by Crown |
496 Pages | Goodreads

Description: ❝In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself–the first in a dazzling new fantasy 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.

But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic–the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience–have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims.

Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them.

To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined❞

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MY RATING: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

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REVIEW

This is an action-packed, entertaining, and adventurous story.

We follow Sancia Grado, a young thief trying to survive in a poverty-ridden city as she tries to steal a powerful device. In this world, objects have been modified with a mystical process called scriving. When an object is scrived it forces it to behave in a way different that it was designed to.

The author did a great job with the world building. He took the scriving concept and created a very imaginative story with compelling characters. My favorite person in this book was Clef, and I loved his interactions with Sancia. I will not explain who Clef is because I want you to discover it by yourself by reading this book (and also because I don’t want to reveal too much, it’s all about the journey).

This is the first book I’ve read from this author but it won’t be the last. Overall, I had a lot of fun reading this book and recommend it to readers of fantasy, YA, and contemporary fiction.

Received ARC from the publisher via Netgalley