Foundryside

I picked this up because it fit into my request for more fantasy with lgbt characters. While there are lgbt characters, it's not a theme of the book, and it takes up so little of it that it's barely even there. I'm surprised how much that disappointed me. Maybe it's because Foundryside has many great things to offer, and the lgbt aspect would've perfected it for me? Maybe.

The worldbuilding is magnificent. The concept of magic isn't really magic, but something akin to symbol-writing overriding laws of logic and reality. It's hard to explain ??? Bennet does a very fine job at it, though. There are elements of AI in this, but it's not technology as we know it... I haven't read anything like it before.

The characters are easy to love, even the villains. In fact, there's a very fine line between villains and heroes and at some point you'll realize Bennett has woven his plot masterly to the point where your own concept of right and wrong has been tampered with.

For all the great things that is Foundryside, I don't really care to mention the little things that annoyed me. They don't really matter when I've had to force myself to put down the book and go to bed the past two nights.