Foundryside

A Novel

English language

Published Dec. 18, 2018 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-5247-6037-3
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reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

Entertaining, exhausting, and potentially triggering for some

Trigger warning for this book at the end of the review

I really enjoyed this book. The world and character building were first-class, and I completely loved the way that the author integrated themes of class struggle and capitalist exploitation of the working/poor.

Having said that, there were a few things that lowered this book from my list of "best reads of the year" to the slightly larger pile of "meh, it was pretty good".

First, there were so many times that I found myself finishing a chapter muttering "oh goddammit" because of some unexpected plot twist. These are great if they're interspersed throughout a story at strategically important turning points, but it felt like Bennett was a little too generous with these unexpected narrative surprises. It felt like a constant struggle where the vast majority of the chapter would build the narrative one step forward for the characters, and …

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  • Fiction, fantasy, general