A review by amylandranch
Foundling by D.M. Cornish

3.0

I picked this up at the book store because it said it was like J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert Jordan. What unfolded was not what I expected but I still liked it. Rossamund is an orphan that has grown up in a foundling house and is educated and prepared for work. He gets sent to his first job post and along the way runs into many adventures. The story itself is a little hard to read with some of the dialect used and you would have to be a persistent reader to stick with it. There is also a 100 page glossary of definitions for all the words used. The author does a great job of creating his own world and is very creative in that aspect. I just don't know if today's teen readers are willing to put in the work to get to the meat of the story. I enjoyed it much more as the story went along. Hopefully teens who like fantasy would like this book.