Tag: a drop of corruption

• Jumping into Robert Jackson Bennett’s High Fantasy Novel Foundryside

  We all know I love the Shadow of the Leviathan series by Robert Jackson Bennett, and I managed to find this fantasy series of his written before The Tainted Cup, so I bought the paperbacks and have had them sitting pretty on my bookshelf, awaiting their turn to be read. The time has come, and…

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  January 7, 2026

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• annafromuni’s 2025 Favourites

  It feels like 2025 has flown by, not just in terms of my studies and PhD work, but in what I have read and when I read it. I swear, I was only just reading some of these favourites a few weeks ago, but apparently, they were read back in February and March. Time really…

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  December 28, 2025

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• My May 2025 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: content – there has been a lot going on with my PhD research and working towards candidature this month, but I have been able to fit in a decent number of books to keep both mentally stimulated and relaxed. I think I have found a great balance between work and free time, and…

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  May 31, 2025

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• More High Fantasy Mystery in A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

  I have been itching to read A Drop of Corruption since I got it on my shelf but diligently waited until this moment of post-PhD chaos to start. What a spectacular, immersive, and thoroughly entertaining fantasy mystery this is! Now I definitely know I will be snooping around Robert Jackson Bennett’s works to get more…

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  May 14, 2025

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• Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup is Unique, Intriguing, and Wholly Immersive

  If you tell me a book is set in a high-fantasy world, has deep political layers and rich ye grim details, and is a crime fiction where the characters resemble Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, I’m going to ask you to hand it over. Now. Please. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is that…

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  April 10, 2025

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