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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, never been done before.
I am well and truly blown away and also a bit surprised at just how much I loved this. I was so confused at first, but slowly everything started coming together. Did I guess some things early on? Yeah, but it didn't make the reveals any less meaningful or interesting. As it is, I'm still left with SO many questions, and I can't wait to pick up the next two books so I can get some answers. Just...this book kept my interest the whole time, and the short chapters made it so easy to work through. I love the complexity of the main characters, and it contained so many tropes I like. I've been itching for a fantasy story, and this delivered.
One thing is that I'm noticing this book marked as YA a lot - on here and in the store I bought it from. But I think I can safely say that this book is NOT YA, but rather more new adult or adult. Just a note.
I am well and truly blown away and also a bit surprised at just how much I loved this. I was so confused at first, but slowly everything started coming together. Did I guess some things early on? Yeah, but it didn't make the reveals any less meaningful or interesting. As it is, I'm still left with SO many questions, and I can't wait to pick up the next two books so I can get some answers. Just...this book kept my interest the whole time, and the short chapters made it so easy to work through. I love the complexity of the main characters, and it contained so many tropes I like. I've been itching for a fantasy story, and this delivered.
One thing is that I'm noticing this book marked as YA a lot - on here and in the store I bought it from. But I think I can safely say that this book is NOT YA, but rather more new adult or adult. Just a note.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
This book is a sloppily-executed waste of mild potential. You can't really rate a book off its potential, but yeah. You get it.
The worldbuilding, or I guess Legrand's best approximate of it, was the only reason I made it through to the end without DNFing. All of Furyborn's potential was in its worldbuilding, which ultimately went nowhere like everything else of any value here. Without the essence of its world, this book would have nothing to show for itself. The characters are one-dimensional, and so are their relationships with each other; the plot is tedious at best, unimaginative at worst; the writing is stifled, awkward and inert (the dialogue is especially lacking); and with the ending comes no satisfaction, nor any accompanying desire to further your way through the series, because nothing has happened, no one has done anything, and you have no reason to care about the characters or what nothingness they'll get up to next, anyway.
The romantic relationships were all profusely sex/desire-driven, which I don’t personally find compelling, but maybe would if I didn't hate all of the characters so much. If I found Simon/Eliana or Audric/Rielle/Corien worse while I was reading this, I couldn't tell you. I wanted all of them to explode, and not in the good way. I also thought it was strange that Simon, despite (iirc) taking Eliana from Rielle when she was a baby, is the one set up to have a relationship with her. Just felt weird to me. Like, he was what, ten? Eleven? Something like that at the time. And she was a baby. That's fucking weird, dude. You're weird.
The double/parallel plotline was probably meant to enhance this book, but for me just ruined it. If, maybe, the stories referenced or influenced each other more directly, it wouldn't be so bad. As it were, I felt like I was reading two entirely different stories, with no real link between each other besides Rielle and Eliana's "mysterious connection" or whatever the hell was going on there. The prophecy bullshit felt a million miles away from everything that was happening in Eliana's story, while Rielle's was a repetitive mess of tired, meandering conversations and lengthy trials with no stakes.
There was definitely something of note in the whole marques/angels thing going on, but like I mentioned earlier, Furyborn is a savant of piss poor execution. I had zero idea of what was intended with the story's angel angle, because it came from nothing and, you guessed it, went nowhere. What did Corien even add to the story? What was his purpose, rooting around inside Rielle's head? Why are any of us meant to care about things that are hardly inferenced, with no apparent basis or standing in the world?
Maybe I'm being a little too harsh but I need to get across how much I hated this book. It just wasn't for me. At all. I was so glad to be done with it after forcing myself to finish just so I could give it a proper, thoughtful and, obviously, heated review. There's a chance the story gets better in the second book, maybe even the third! But I don't like the characters enough to try. To me, this is a shitty standalone I'll never have to think about again. Yippee
The worldbuilding, or I guess Legrand's best approximate of it, was the only reason I made it through to the end without DNFing. All of Furyborn's potential was in its worldbuilding, which ultimately went nowhere like everything else of any value here. Without the essence of its world, this book would have nothing to show for itself. The characters are one-dimensional, and so are their relationships with each other; the plot is tedious at best, unimaginative at worst; the writing is stifled, awkward and inert (the dialogue is especially lacking); and with the ending comes no satisfaction, nor any accompanying desire to further your way through the series, because nothing has happened, no one has done anything, and you have no reason to care about the characters or what nothingness they'll get up to next, anyway.
The romantic relationships were all profusely sex/desire-driven, which I don’t personally find compelling, but maybe would if I didn't hate all of the characters so much. If I found Simon/Eliana or Audric/Rielle/Corien worse while I was reading this, I couldn't tell you. I wanted all of them to explode, and not in the good way. I also thought it was strange that Simon, despite (iirc) taking Eliana from Rielle when she was a baby, is the one set up to have a relationship with her. Just felt weird to me. Like, he was what, ten? Eleven? Something like that at the time. And she was a baby. That's fucking weird, dude. You're weird.
The double/parallel plotline was probably meant to enhance this book, but for me just ruined it. If, maybe, the stories referenced or influenced each other more directly, it wouldn't be so bad. As it were, I felt like I was reading two entirely different stories, with no real link between each other besides Rielle and Eliana's "mysterious connection" or whatever the hell was going on there. The prophecy bullshit felt a million miles away from everything that was happening in Eliana's story, while Rielle's was a repetitive mess of tired, meandering conversations and lengthy trials with no stakes.
There was definitely something of note in the whole marques/angels thing going on, but like I mentioned earlier, Furyborn is a savant of piss poor execution. I had zero idea of what was intended with the story's angel angle, because it came from nothing and, you guessed it, went nowhere. What did Corien even add to the story? What was his purpose, rooting around inside Rielle's head? Why are any of us meant to care about things that are hardly inferenced, with no apparent basis or standing in the world?
Maybe I'm being a little too harsh but I need to get across how much I hated this book. It just wasn't for me. At all. I was so glad to be done with it after forcing myself to finish just so I could give it a proper, thoughtful and, obviously, heated review. There's a chance the story gets better in the second book, maybe even the third! But I don't like the characters enough to try. To me, this is a shitty standalone I'll never have to think about again. Yippee
I couldn’t follow what was going on, none of the characters were compelling, and without likeable characters or an addicting plot I just didn’t have it in me to go through another trials-type book.
Wow. WOW. Serious review in a bit, but man did I get into this one.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated