Foundryside: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy Book 1)

Name: Foundryside: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy Book 1)
Price: 1.99 USD
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Rating: 4.5 (7912 reviews)
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett

by Robert Jackson Bennett

Fantasy Science Fiction Fantasy

4.5 (7,912)

4.5 stars from 7,912 reviews. One of the highest rated Fantasy books we track.

503 pages~8.4 hr readPublished by Random House Publishing GroupPublished 2018-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

You love intricate magic systems that feel like code and engineering, not hand-waving and incantations.
You're after heist plots with real stakes: this isn't a con job, it's a fight to stop reality itself being rewritten.
You want characters who are flawed and grow, especially protagonists who aren't chosen ones but earn their power through sheer will.

Maybe not for you if...

You prefer straightforward good-versus-evil narratives without moral ambiguity or corporate corruption as the real enemy.
You want quick, breezy reads: this book layers world-building, politics, and character work, and it earns its 500 pages.
You're looking for a standalone: this is book one of a trilogy, and it ends with threads deliberately left open.

About this book

In the city of Tevanne, magic operates through an industrialized system called scriving—the use of coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience. The Merchant Houses control this technology and have used it to transform Tevanne into a vast capitalist machine. Sancia Grado is a skilled thief hired to steal a heavily guarded artifact from the docks. Unknown to her, this object possesses unimaginable power and could revolutionize scriving itself. If the Merchant Houses unlock its secrets, they will rewrite reality to suit their aims. Someone within those Houses wants Sancia dead and the artifact for themselves. To survive and stop the transformation underway, Sancia must find unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact's power, and undergo her own transformation into something she never imagined possible. This is the first book in The Founders Trilogy.

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