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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
3.5/5 ⭐️ This book is easy to devour! It is fast paced, entertaining, & intense. I love how the story is told in 2 different time periods, hundreds of years apart. I love how Legrand connects the two main characters. I’m excited to read the sequel!!
3.5 solid stars.
This look me longer than normal because life is just that way. But this book was a great start to a trilogy. Good characters with a lot of growth potential. Good foundation to a setting and world building. Strong-ish magic system (we don’t get much about it and so I’m hoping that it’s more developed in the 2nd book). And honestly the writing was very easy to read. I would easily get through a 100 pages without feeling exhausted or tired from keeping along. There was a lot of fighting scenes (love!), some travel (love!), and really cool morally grey characters (the best kind).
The reason why it didn’t get a higher star rating is mainly for 3 things:
- there were just too many fantastical elements going on. Angels. Elementals. Fantastical beasts. Possessions. Wraiths. And the list goes on. So I felt that it was a bit crowed. But obviously it might all make sense the more I get into this trilogy but as fresh eyes coming into this book not knowing much of anything about it, it was a lot to mentally juggle.
- I guessed most if not all of the reveals that happened in this book. It was kind of obvious where it was going. But honestly that didn’t take away from just enjoying reading the book. Even when I guessed right, it didn’t detract from my need to know more.
- and finally, I didn’t feel like it was a wholly original, out of this world, one of a kind, fantasy book. It reminds me a lot of The Shadow and the Bone and to some extend SJM’s first 3 books in her first series (forgot the name since they all sounds the same). But yeah, similar vibes.
Overall, I did enjoy it and can’t wait to pick up and start the 2nd book in this trilogy.
This look me longer than normal because life is just that way. But this book was a great start to a trilogy. Good characters with a lot of growth potential. Good foundation to a setting and world building. Strong-ish magic system (we don’t get much about it and so I’m hoping that it’s more developed in the 2nd book). And honestly the writing was very easy to read. I would easily get through a 100 pages without feeling exhausted or tired from keeping along. There was a lot of fighting scenes (love!), some travel (love!), and really cool morally grey characters (the best kind).
The reason why it didn’t get a higher star rating is mainly for 3 things:
- there were just too many fantastical elements going on. Angels. Elementals. Fantastical beasts. Possessions. Wraiths. And the list goes on. So I felt that it was a bit crowed. But obviously it might all make sense the more I get into this trilogy but as fresh eyes coming into this book not knowing much of anything about it, it was a lot to mentally juggle.
- I guessed most if not all of the reveals that happened in this book. It was kind of obvious where it was going. But honestly that didn’t take away from just enjoying reading the book. Even when I guessed right, it didn’t detract from my need to know more.
- and finally, I didn’t feel like it was a wholly original, out of this world, one of a kind, fantasy book. It reminds me a lot of The Shadow and the Bone and to some extend SJM’s first 3 books in her first series (forgot the name since they all sounds the same). But yeah, similar vibes.
Overall, I did enjoy it and can’t wait to pick up and start the 2nd book in this trilogy.
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My Rating: 2 Stars
Granny's Rating: 1 star
My Rating: 2 Stars
Granny's Rating: 1 star
The story was interesting enough, and I felt invested in the characters. However, the pacing started to irritate me midway through the book. The constant jumping back and forth between the two main characters was exhausting, and I never felt like we spent enough time on either of them to really understand them. I also don't like that the book feels like a sequel grab, setting up in the prologue the arc of one of the main characters, and then never explaining how she ended up making the decisions she did. It felt incomplete and unfinished with an abrupt ending.
I received an advanced copy through my fairyloot box.
I loved Furyborn from start to finish. The two-lead female Characters are strong and resilient. This tied with just a little bit of forbidden romance and danger, I feel the author made a new unforgettable fantasy series just in time to fill the space of other series that are coming to an end. The Empirium series is beginning to look like my new addiction in the fantasy genre.
This novel is the type that keeps you hanging on every word and leaves you wanting more even after the last page. With this book being the first novel of the Empirium series the ending is left open and a lot of questions are left unanswered. Some people dislike this and prefer to wait for the rest of the series, which is fine, however I enjoy the excitement furyborn leaves you with and the hope of getting more answers when the next one releases. I cannot wait for more of these characters.
I loved Furyborn from start to finish. The two-lead female Characters are strong and resilient. This tied with just a little bit of forbidden romance and danger, I feel the author made a new unforgettable fantasy series just in time to fill the space of other series that are coming to an end. The Empirium series is beginning to look like my new addiction in the fantasy genre.
This novel is the type that keeps you hanging on every word and leaves you wanting more even after the last page. With this book being the first novel of the Empirium series the ending is left open and a lot of questions are left unanswered. Some people dislike this and prefer to wait for the rest of the series, which is fine, however I enjoy the excitement furyborn leaves you with and the hope of getting more answers when the next one releases. I cannot wait for more of these characters.
Exciting to read and unique twist on a fantasy YA novel! I only had issues with dueling perspectives throughout the book, as that isn't my preferred structure for a book, but I would recommend this.
This was a really interesting read where the reader jumps back and forth between two timelines that are 1,000 years apart following the prophecy:
“The Gate will fall. The angels will return and bring ruin to the world. You will know this time by the rise of two human Queens - one of blood, and one of light. One with the power to save the world. One with the power to destroy it. Two Queens will rise. They will carry the power of the Seven. They will carry your fate in their hands. Two Queens will rise.”
Rielle has been hiding her powers her whole life when she enters a race-style competition with her male best friend and secret crush, Audric, who is promised to her female best friend, Ludivine. When assassins enter the competition to try and kill Audric, Rielle doesn’t think, she acts. To save him she exposes that she can wield several different forms of magic, when any other magic wielder in the world can only use control one. After saving Audric and recovering from the battle, the king and his counsel decide Rielle must complete 7 trials to prove she can control all 7 forms of power AND prove her allegiance as the Sun Queen to her people. As Rielle proceeds through the trials, she questions if she really is the Sun Queen.. or could she be the Blood Queen.
Eliana has always been different. All she has even known is survival. She knew her supernatural healing powers weren’t normal, knew she should keep it hidden from those she doesn’t know and trust. As a trained assassin known as the Dread of Orline, she realizes girls keep going missing. When she is given the task to capture a known rebel assassin, The Wolf, that would pay enough for her to get her family to freedom, she doesn’t hesitate to take the job. She hunts the Wolf she continually finds nothing.. until he finds her the same night her mother is taken, like all the other women who have gone missing. The Wolf convinces Eliana if she helps him, he can help her find her mom and get her family to safety.
As Rielle progresses through the trials and Eliana sets out on her mission with the Wolf, they both find they’re being lied to, their powers are more plentiful than either could imagine, and they’re on the brink of war.
I really liked the magic system in this book. It was a little hard to get into at first because of the back and forth in the timelines before you have really nailed down the litany of characters in each story, but it drew me in quickly. I found Eliana a little inconsistent when she would demand answers but then just go along with a bunch of plans blind. I also think the Wolf realistically would have realized he couldn’t keep her in the dark about everything the whole time and it would’ve solved a lot of the issues they had.
The one thing I really didn’t love was the “cliffhanger.” It felt more like the writing just left off in the middle of a chapter than as a cliffhanger for me. It felt like a weird place to stop. I do think I’ll read the rest of the series though because they seem really interesting and this book barely touched the Sun Queen/Blood Queen assignments and what it meant for each character.
“The Gate will fall. The angels will return and bring ruin to the world. You will know this time by the rise of two human Queens - one of blood, and one of light. One with the power to save the world. One with the power to destroy it. Two Queens will rise. They will carry the power of the Seven. They will carry your fate in their hands. Two Queens will rise.”
Rielle has been hiding her powers her whole life when she enters a race-style competition with her male best friend and secret crush, Audric, who is promised to her female best friend, Ludivine. When assassins enter the competition to try and kill Audric, Rielle doesn’t think, she acts. To save him she exposes that she can wield several different forms of magic, when any other magic wielder in the world can only use control one. After saving Audric and recovering from the battle, the king and his counsel decide Rielle must complete 7 trials to prove she can control all 7 forms of power AND prove her allegiance as the Sun Queen to her people. As Rielle proceeds through the trials, she questions if she really is the Sun Queen.. or could she be the Blood Queen.
Eliana has always been different. All she has even known is survival. She knew her supernatural healing powers weren’t normal, knew she should keep it hidden from those she doesn’t know and trust. As a trained assassin known as the Dread of Orline, she realizes girls keep going missing. When she is given the task to capture a known rebel assassin, The Wolf, that would pay enough for her to get her family to freedom, she doesn’t hesitate to take the job. She hunts the Wolf she continually finds nothing.. until he finds her the same night her mother is taken, like all the other women who have gone missing. The Wolf convinces Eliana if she helps him, he can help her find her mom and get her family to safety.
As Rielle progresses through the trials and Eliana sets out on her mission with the Wolf, they both find they’re being lied to, their powers are more plentiful than either could imagine, and they’re on the brink of war.
I really liked the magic system in this book. It was a little hard to get into at first because of the back and forth in the timelines before you have really nailed down the litany of characters in each story, but it drew me in quickly. I found Eliana a little inconsistent when she would demand answers but then just go along with a bunch of plans blind. I also think the Wolf realistically would have realized he couldn’t keep her in the dark about everything the whole time and it would’ve solved a lot of the issues they had.
The one thing I really didn’t love was the “cliffhanger.” It felt more like the writing just left off in the middle of a chapter than as a cliffhanger for me. It felt like a weird place to stop. I do think I’ll read the rest of the series though because they seem really interesting and this book barely touched the Sun Queen/Blood Queen assignments and what it meant for each character.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ta bueno y es super entretenido, pero el inicio es un bodrio.
This book was long and it was boring and I only stayed for Eliana‘s point of you frankly it only got good in the last hundred pages which means I had to put through 370 pages for it to get good I don’t know if I’ll pick up the second book probably won’t the twist at the end was fun but not 470 pages long fun