Much like its predecessor, Shorefall begins with a heist, and this one is several orders of magnitude more dangerous (and exciting). “The problem with might, you see,” he said, “is that there’s always someone mightier.” The first shot was fired in Foundryside, when the mountain of the Candianos collapsed and the Company fell, but it is here in Shorefall that the battle lines are drawn. Scrivings might be the coins the city of Tevanne trades in-a practice that divests any object of its intended identity, convincing it to “disobey reality in very unusual ways”-but Crasedes’ will can literally reshape the very warp and weft of reality itself.Ĭrasedes, unfortunately, plans to water the soil of Tevanne with blood, and the Foundrysiders fortunately plan to stop him. And death coles to the Foundrysiders in the shape of Crasedes, a powerful hierophant now successfully resurrected by Gregor’s grief-stricken mother. But you can only sidle up to death so many times before it grabs your ankle and tries to pull you under. The Foundrysiders-Sanca, Berenice, Gregor and Orso-are once again sidling up to death, this time with a Robin-Hood scheme to steal the scrivings hoarded by the Michiels and distribute them back to the people of Tevanne.

Three years have passed, and the city of Tevanne seems determined to tear itself in two.

And how utterly horrifying.īennett wastes no time flinging us into his world, with a lot more terror and much less hand-holding. Gosh, how good it feels to be back into this world.

Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett