#a drop of corruption

[anxietycreation]

"Just look for the fellow with testicles large enough to cause back deformities"

A drop of corruption is proving to be just as fucking funny as the tainted cup was. I adore ana so much. And we've got certified man whore din? Obsessed.

[shioriseryu]

Sen sez imperiya.

[inkeaters]

BRO, A Drop of Corruption was soooo gooooood. Ya'll, Malo is so cool and her voice in the audiobook is perfect. Ana has also never been cooler, especially in the scene when she figures out the final pieces of the puzzle(shown here). I also thought it was kinda funny that half of the events can be summed up by "Entire government ultra pressed about fertilizer"

[evenaturtleduck]

A Drop of Corruption doodles of Ana Dolabra. I love her so much.

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2025 📖 no. 036

A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

“The dead cannot be restored. Vice and bribery will never be totally banished from the cantons. And the drop of corruption that lies within every society shall always persist.”

[boookthievery]

hey tumblr can you read the tainted cup by robert jackson bennett so i can get more din and ana fanart pls and thank you i am begging on my knees

[alcyoneusgalaxy]

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[randombookquotes]

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[wearethekat]

April Book Reviews: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

The previous book in this series, The Tainted Cup, blew me away last year, so I was excited to finally get to read the sequel. In A Drop of Corruption, eidetic Din has traveled with the Sherlockian Ana Dolabra to investigate the locked room murder of an imperial Treaurer employee in the unstable territory of Yarrowdale. Yarrowdale is both home to the crucial leviathan processing industry and due to join the empire within the year--and as Ana and Din follow the convoluted tendrils of the murder, they begin to realize it is deeply entwined with Yarrowdale's politics...

A Drop of Corruption is both a top-tier cunning, tightly plotted mystery novel, and a fascinatingly original fantasy court politics book. There are a number of novels that do either mystery or fantasy well, but I can't think of any that pull off the combination with such panache. Either element would be an excellent novel in its own right, and together they knock your socks off. And while the secondary characters are a bit ephemeral due to the episodic nature of the series, both Din's loyal competence and Ana's prickly, foul-mouthed genius are vividly drawn.

The detective strategy from the first book continues here. Eidetic Din is Ana's eyes, as well as our POV as the primary narrator. He picks up the clues, pieces together a bit of it, and passes it on to Ana, who makes wild leaps of deduction and sends the investigation hurtling in a new direction. It's Sherlock and Watson flavored, but Din is sharp enough to be more than the unobserved straight man, and Ana's deductions are grounded in the clues and don't feel contrived. And besides, her deduction style lends itself to a book full of breakneck plot twists. The biology-based magic, from humans modified to be sniffer dogs to blood-based keys to corpse moss, is intriguing and makes for some excellent body horror. Bennett seems to have barely scratched the surface of his imagination in The Tainted Cup, and the worldbuilding extends extravagantly outward from the nuances of Treasury operation to the secrets of gutting a leviathan.

The Tainted Cup was one of my favorite books of last year, and A Drop of Corruption lived up to that standard. What an excellent fantasy mystery. Highly recommended.

[catmint1]

As Sir Terry Pratchett once put it…'Kings, what a good idea.' Regardless, the second decade of the twenty-first century seems replete with examples as to why autocracies are, to put it mildly, very stupid. Our headlines are dominated by regimes with one nigh-all-powerful man at the top making any number of terrible choices, and then,—to the bafflement of the entire globe—doubling down on them, thus inflicting massive suffering on his people.

—Robert Jackson Bennett, A Drop of Corruption (author's note September 2024)

[literaryrobin]

just finished a drop of corruption….dinios kol you unmitigated bisexual disaster (affectionate)

[i-did-not-mean-to]

Is it too crazy to google the follow-up book to a book that dropped earlier this month?

I need more. Fml

[just-eyeballs]

Shocked and delighted to learn Din tops CANONICALLY

[anxietycreation]

First the tainted cup, now cabernet. Why must things I'm into have such a small fandom presence 😭

[crabs-with-sticks]

Ana Dolabra my iconic autistic queen, I love you so much.

[seamusquigley]

"Goddamn autocrats. They really are hardly better than shit-stained children."

Ana Dolabra, A Drop Of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett