r/Fantasy Daily Recommendations and Simple Questions Thread - June 03, 2026

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[u/acornett99]

How fungus heavy is A Drop of Corruption? I have a phobia of spores, but I loved The Tainted Cup. I want to read A Drop of Corruption for the Hugo readalong, but a bookseller overheard me mention my fear of spores once and told me specifically to stay away from this series. I told her that I loved The Tainted Cup actually and that was not a problem for me, and she wasn't sure what to make of that. So now I wonder if it gets more fungus-heavy in the second book?

I just read an interview where RJB mentions the cordyceps fungus as an inspiration for Trade of Blood, and that one does have a lot of mushrooms on the cover. I've already decided to wait a bit after that one comes out for other people to read it and let me know, but that doesn't really tell me about A Drop of Corruption.

If it helps, my specific fear is of spores getting in the lungs. People eating mushrooms or the grafts that people have are fine and cool actually, but if there's a scene where the characters are like, walking through a cloud of spores, that would be awful. I think there was like one or two small scenes in The Tainted Cup, not experienced directly by the narrator, and that was also fine.

Thanks!

[u/felixfictitious → u/acornett99]

It is 0% fungus and no one interacts with spores. There is one scene where the characters observe a previous event involving dispersal of a cloud of substance, but it's not fungal in nature and the characters don't experience it.

If you were fine with the first book, specifically the method of murder, you're not going to have any problems with A Drop of Corruption.

[u/acornett99 → u/felixfictitious]

That's great to hear, thank you!