Shorefall

This is the second book in the Foundryside series. It picks up 3 years after the events of the first book. I read it for book club, only 3 months after the first book. I remembered quite a bit, but I had trouble getting into it anyway. It felt like it suffered from second book syndrome. That is, the first book feels very tight, but the second book spends more time setting up the scenario for the third book. The book is taut and fast-paced like the first one, but it just felt like it was missing something. Perhaps it was the novelty of the magic system that was missing, or the familiarity with the characters. It just never completely grabbed me.

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