#locklands

[reverie-quotes]

"We are a dream," whispered Tevanne. "A half thing. An unfinished work."

— Robert Bennet Jackson, Locklands

[reverie-quotes]

<No,> said Berenice quietly. <Enough. No more plotting, no more scheming. Let's be together instead.> <But I want to save you,> said Sancia. <A minute with you,> said Berenice, <is salvation enough.>

— Robert Bennet Jackson, Locklands

[reverie-quotes]

Men came to the lands, men built in the lands, and then they built things to empty the lands of men.

— Robert Bennet Jackson, Locklands

[summaryi]

Locklands - Robert Jackson Bennett

DNF

[never-sated]

"There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be brought by what we give to one another. Nothing more."

- Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

[never-sated]

"That's how we like to think of ourselves, as people in a tale. Living our stories. But if you live long enough, you see it's not a story at all. It just keeps going. People come and go, like butterflies in the wind. Cruelties don't always meet justice. And maybe you'll never meet the end you wanted, or expected, or deserved. Maybe you'll never meet an end at all. Eventually you're just left with scraps. Pieces of unfinished stories. Threads of tales no one ever got to live."

- Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett

[never-sated]

I managed to read Foundryside and Shorefall twice before even starting Locklands, but today's the day!

Time to finally finish The Founders Trilogy.

[wind-rider]

Foundryside is already an unhinged trilogy but Locklands is absolutely the greatest example of this.

You have the tragic lesbians, the traumatized middle-aged woman, the sapient key, the former ray of sunshine, and the godlike being with near-absolute power over reality.

All of them except for the godlike being are in a hivemind together.

The key is the god’s absent father who is being haunted by his dead wife.

They are trying to break into the backrooms of the universe before a different, eviller hivemind does.

What the fuck is happening.