Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
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3/5. I am still pregnant, and Robert Jackson Bennett writes interesting, chewy fantasy. This one seemed, at first, to be slighter and more traditional then his Divine Cities trilogy, which I really enjoyed. The setup is that a young woman street thief with special talents that she doesn't particularly want steals the wrong thing and becomes embroiled in guild house politics. But this story complicates itself as it goes, and becomes more and more about subjects and objects, and rewriting the rules of the world around you, and how once you have been made a commodity by someone, it is very hard to refind yourself as a person. Also, the magic system is thoroughly entertaining – it essentially amounts to objects that can talk, and many of them are excellent and hilarious.
3/5. I am still pregnant, and Robert Jackson Bennett writes interesting, chewy fantasy. This one seemed, at first, to be slighter and more traditional then his Divine Cities trilogy, which I really enjoyed. The setup is that a young woman street thief with special talents that she doesn't particularly want steals the wrong thing and becomes embroiled in guild house politics. But this story complicates itself as it goes, and becomes more and more about subjects and objects, and rewriting the rules of the world around you, and how once you have been made a commodity by someone, it is very hard to refind yourself as a person. Also, the magic system is thoroughly entertaining – it essentially amounts to objects that can talk, and many of them are excellent and hilarious.