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Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

9 reviews

gladiolus17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I love Gregor. Gregor WOULD TREAT ME RIGHT.
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Robert Jackson Bennett hurts me again. I loved this book just as much as the first one. It’s so centered on theme, and the plotting is so tight. Now I figured out what the magic system reminded me of: coding. This book came to me at a time where I’m struggling with excel functions at work. Finally getting a formula to work is elating, and gives me the impression  that I am a modern scriver.

Shorefall’s pacing is a hundred times faster than Foundryside, most due to the time constraints in the book. This whole book maybe takes place in less than three days! Yet so much happens, and everything goes wrong, and everything goes right, then wrong again.

I especially love Bennett’s villains. The Big Bad was monologuing and I kept thinking: hmm, he’s not wrong tho? And that’s what make the villains sympathetic and understandable. Each baddie wants to right a wrong but uses distorted methods to do so.

As always, Bennett’s dialogue is superb. Sometimes what Sancia, Clef, or Orso say make me laugh out loud or screech.

I cannot wait for my library loan on Locklands to come.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Slavery

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Child death, Torture, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Car accident

Minor: Rape, Slavery, and Domestic abuse

rossandhissandwich's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Blood, Violence, Death, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Rape

kassidyreads's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Slavery, and Torture

Minor: Child death, Animal death, and Rape

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Torture, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

micheala's review against another edition

3.75

This sequel is tonally very different from Foundryside. It's much darker and gorier, and the stakes are much higher. 

While the first book was more of your typical heist novel with a cool magic system, this one is about a resurrected god and attempting to prevent his world domination. 

Foundryside had the ability to be read as a standalone, however this one, well let's just say I'm glad I waited for the finally to come out before I read it - if I had to wait for two years with that ending? No thanks

On a happier note, I loved seeing the casual relationship between Sancia and Ber that has clearly been developing in the three years since the first book ended. 

I'm interested to see how the final book concludes some of the plot points and character arcs. I'm also interested to see how long of a time jump will occur between books two and three - I hope only a short one, but from the blurb I suspect it will be a long time jump. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape

reneebkreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Rape, and Torture

fraxisle's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Uses the word "queerly" as in "strange" about once every 1-2 chapter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Mental illness

Minor: Sexism, Sexual assault, and Rape

dimins's review

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

 

4.5/5 - I enjoyed this book a lot more than the first and I’m looking forward to completing the trilogy. This book made the first book feel like really just a big set-up for the world-building and magic system. The action was fast and furious, and the world, which was already compelling in the first book, now seems a lot more fleshed out to me in this one and made me genuinely invested in what was happening. The first book set up the main characters’ backstories so you don’t get too much of that here, instead you have a better sense of how their ongoing dynamics as they work with each other and play off each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Overall, a really brilliant sequel that properly utilised everything it set up in the first book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Rape