{"id":15968,"date":"2020-05-09T11:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=15968"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:40:45","slug":"shorefall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/shorefall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorefall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Humankind is <strong>most<\/strong> innovative at turning innovation to the cruelest ends. Power alters the soul far more than any innovation I could imagine, even at the height of my privileges&#8230; Eventually I came to realize, Sancia &#8212; you can&#8217;t make laws or policies or dictums to constrain this impulse&#8230; You must overwrite all the hearts and minds of mankind &#8212; directly, instantly, and <strong>permanently<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shorefall<\/strong> by Robert Jackson Bennett, published in 2020<\/p>\n<p>Sancia, Berenice, Gregor, and Orso are continuing with their plan to make scrivings free, and to put the campos out of business. Then they get a warning: the first of all hierophants, Crasedes Magnus, is returning. They figure out that Gregor&#8217;s mother, Ofelia Dandelo, is trying to bring him back to life. They don&#8217;t know much about Magnus but they know he was a monster.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/foundryside\/\"><strong>Foundryside<\/strong><\/a>. It instantly brings you back into the world of Tevanne.<\/p>\n<p>It has protagonists you love, and an antagonist with understandable motivation. The story doesn&#8217;t come to a conclusion, as another sequel is hypothetically forthcoming &#8212; but it&#8217;s a terrific story.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd book I&#8217;ve read by Bennett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Humankind is most innovative at turning innovation to the cruelest ends. Power alters the soul far more than any innovation I could imagine, even at the height of my privileges&#8230; Eventually I came to realize, Sancia &#8212; you can&#8217;t make laws or policies or dictums to constrain this impulse&#8230; You must overwrite all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-15968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15971,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/revisions\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}