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3.77 AVERAGE
I feel like this doesn’t deserve such a low rating it was really good and easy to follow although nothing really happens hopefully it’s setting up for the next two books ?? Also Rielle’s daddy issues r way out of control lmao sis falls in love w/ like anyone who shows her affection lol it’s actually kind of sad
I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Two women come to terms with their destinies in this young adult epic fantasy novel.
So Claire Legrand’s Furyborn completely blew me away. I devoured this book in a 24 hour period. It’s about two powerful young women, Rielle and Eliana, coming to terms with themselves and their circumstances. Each chapter seamlessly alternates between their very different perspectives. Honestly, it should be a hot mess – the constant hopping between time periods, characters, and mythology. And yet, the novel’s charm is the ability to immerse yourself into each story equally. If you enjoy magic, bad ass women, and political intrigue, you will most likely enjoy this story.
The preface took away some of my enjoyment as it reveals the connection between Rielle and Eliana. My hope is the preface is deleted from the final copy. Context clues within the story provides ample foreshadowing to their connection. Additionally, the antagonists needed more development. Despite those minor issues, I just fell in love with the characters and setting. I’m dying to get my hands on the next book in the series!
tl;dr An action-packed epic fantasy with two tenacious female characters.
Two women come to terms with their destinies in this young adult epic fantasy novel.
So Claire Legrand’s Furyborn completely blew me away. I devoured this book in a 24 hour period. It’s about two powerful young women, Rielle and Eliana, coming to terms with themselves and their circumstances. Each chapter seamlessly alternates between their very different perspectives. Honestly, it should be a hot mess – the constant hopping between time periods, characters, and mythology. And yet, the novel’s charm is the ability to immerse yourself into each story equally. If you enjoy magic, bad ass women, and political intrigue, you will most likely enjoy this story.
The preface took away some of my enjoyment as it reveals the connection between Rielle and Eliana. My hope is the preface is deleted from the final copy. Context clues within the story provides ample foreshadowing to their connection. Additionally, the antagonists needed more development. Despite those minor issues, I just fell in love with the characters and setting. I’m dying to get my hands on the next book in the series!
tl;dr An action-packed epic fantasy with two tenacious female characters.
This book had such an interesting premise and there were some interesting and potentially cool bits, but I felt really disconnected. Eliana and her storyline was the worst, and she was really unlikeable. Rielle's story was better but a bit repetitive. To be honest, this reminded me of the Tearling series and not in a good way.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
I'm currently reading this book, and I thought that a read-along-review would be another fun thing for me to do. I've done this with Naomi Novik's, Uprooted, when I forgot my note journal at home one day, as well as Maggie Steifvater's, All the Crooked Saints, and since I think that this particular book is very dense and super complicated to first get into I thought maybe it would help me get through this book faster.
I want to start out, by explaining Furyborn in my own words; so this may take a while:
Time travel bullshit (Which I love and need to write these points down or I'm never going to make sense of it)
Some deeply in world religious shit that I can probably compare to the world today if I really tried
A proulouge and it's aftermath.
F O I L C H A R A C T E R S: Our two mains are so different already, but by the end of this they may end with the same goal in mind and have the same wants but because of who they are and what fate has done to them they're going to be precieved in different ways and have comepletely different endings and this is only the first book.
What trope do I want the most to be cannon? Person who is trying to be edgy turns out to be a cinnamon roll, person who is trying to be a cinnamon roll turns out to be edgy. It's gonna happen, I can feel it. Our two Queens; Rielle and Eliana already have a different life than the other and different goals; Rielle just wants to use her magic and not be a prisoner her entire life and love the man of her dreams, the crown prince, and Eliana is in the world 1,028 years later when the kingdom has fallen and been turned into an empire because of the events that took place in Rielle's lifetime, working as a mercenary to keep her family safe and fed.
Rielle, I think, is going to be my favorite of the two queens. I've always been a sucker for misunderstood characters who were just victim to their circumstances. She just wants to be free on her own terms, as of where I am in this book, but her father and tutor have been trying to keep her down and obedient her entire life until she ends up revealing herself in an unexpected way. To keep her from execution she has to go through seven trials to prove to the king and the kingdom that she isn't a threat, that she isn't the Blood Queen that's to destroy Everything in their world.
Eliana reminds me of Ailin, in the way that she's reluctant to be part of things but she knows she's gotta and ends up caring either way. She's already lost her first lover, and I know that she's going to get a new one by the end of this book. I don't like her chapters so far, they seem a little slow to me and like there isn't enough backstory but that may change as I progress in the book. It may pick up soon, and I'll be happy to see it do so.
So I hate how they're going along with Eliana's chapter's because all she seems to be is 'coy' and leading people into her bed and making comments that aren't necessary at all and feel forced.
Why do they gotta drug her, and then strip her of her clothes? Why is this necessary when you could have easily blindfolded them all if you didn't want them to know an exact location.
Rielle is really turning into the only POV I enjoy.
It feels like it should have just been Rielle's book, and then published Eliana's as a separate book but I do get and enjoy where she's trying to go with this with the different types of characters and the time line it just is Too Much sometimes.
Simon? Don't like him. Eliana is trying to do her own thing and he's over here acting like she knows anything about what's going on. She just wants her mom back, and he thinks she owes them everything.
Don't like Corien either, leave Rielle alone you're going to be the end of this poor girl who just wants love.
I had to change to reading this as an audiobook, because I don't have the time to really sit down and read anymore and I hate getting stuck in Eliana's chapter's. I like the solution of the audiobook because the narrator has a lovely voice to listen to. You don't think that her voice is wrong for what she's speaking for and I may finally be able to get this book completed!
Is this a bad book? No, it's not, I'm just not attached to this book the way that others seem to be or the way that I thought that I would be, since I was so excited for this book when I got it.
It may be more exciting when I get to the last few chapters, a lot of books get exciting at the end which is where they finally get you, but it shouldn't really be where they get you. I should have been emotionally attached since the end of chapter 2, but I only have real sentiment for Rielle at this point.
I love Zahra, and Lu, and how they seem to be the main support casts that have so much the best interests at heart.
I'm almost done at this point because the audiobook is helping me get this far, and I hate that its finally getting good this late but I also wish that we can do without the irrelevant sex scenes because they do little for the plot of the book.
It was such a dick move of Tal to make her go back through her parents burning home for the second time in her life with a crowd watching her. I don't like Tal to begin with, he gives me pedophile vibes and I'm not sure if I'm the only one who feels it but I will sure say it!
Just finished it, and I have some thoughts. I think that Zahra and Lu are the same person, and I didn't see the twist with Lu coming. I thought she was gone for good and then boom there she is and she's been like this for years! The three of them could be the ultimate poly couple if the world wasn't filled with cowards but I guess I can settle with the way things are because Audric loves Rielle, and Rielle loves him.
Simon and Eliana feels forced to me, and like there was no real development there. I'm sort of hoping that they get it out of their system in book 2, and then be on their way with Eliana fixing the world and kicking Corien's ass.
Corien can fight me, because this is all his fault and they all blame Rielle. The girl who wanted love. I feel so angry for her, and low key want her to know that out of the two Queens I'm rooting on her the most even though I know exactly what happens to her.
I hope Rielle, Audric, and Lu are happy in the afterlife together because they deserve that much, and that's that. That's all.
I want to start out, by explaining Furyborn in my own words; so this may take a while:
Time travel bullshit (Which I love and need to write these points down or I'm never going to make sense of it)
Some deeply in world religious shit that I can probably compare to the world today if I really tried
A proulouge and it's aftermath.
F O I L C H A R A C T E R S: Our two mains are so different already, but by the end of this they may end with the same goal in mind and have the same wants but because of who they are and what fate has done to them they're going to be precieved in different ways and have comepletely different endings and this is only the first book.
What trope do I want the most to be cannon? Person who is trying to be edgy turns out to be a cinnamon roll, person who is trying to be a cinnamon roll turns out to be edgy. It's gonna happen, I can feel it. Our two Queens; Rielle and Eliana already have a different life than the other and different goals; Rielle just wants to use her magic and not be a prisoner her entire life and love the man of her dreams, the crown prince, and Eliana is in the world 1,028 years later when the kingdom has fallen and been turned into an empire because of the events that took place in Rielle's lifetime, working as a mercenary to keep her family safe and fed.
Rielle, I think, is going to be my favorite of the two queens. I've always been a sucker for misunderstood characters who were just victim to their circumstances. She just wants to be free on her own terms, as of where I am in this book, but her father and tutor have been trying to keep her down and obedient her entire life until she ends up revealing herself in an unexpected way. To keep her from execution she has to go through seven trials to prove to the king and the kingdom that she isn't a threat, that she isn't the Blood Queen that's to destroy Everything in their world.
Eliana reminds me of Ailin, in the way that she's reluctant to be part of things but she knows she's gotta and ends up caring either way. She's already lost her first lover, and I know that she's going to get a new one by the end of this book. I don't like her chapters so far, they seem a little slow to me and like there isn't enough backstory but that may change as I progress in the book. It may pick up soon, and I'll be happy to see it do so.
So I hate how they're going along with Eliana's chapter's because all she seems to be is 'coy' and leading people into her bed and making comments that aren't necessary at all and feel forced.
Why do they gotta drug her, and then strip her of her clothes? Why is this necessary when you could have easily blindfolded them all if you didn't want them to know an exact location.
Rielle is really turning into the only POV I enjoy.
It feels like it should have just been Rielle's book, and then published Eliana's as a separate book but I do get and enjoy where she's trying to go with this with the different types of characters and the time line it just is Too Much sometimes.
Simon? Don't like him. Eliana is trying to do her own thing and he's over here acting like she knows anything about what's going on. She just wants her mom back, and he thinks she owes them everything.
Don't like Corien either, leave Rielle alone you're going to be the end of this poor girl who just wants love.
I had to change to reading this as an audiobook, because I don't have the time to really sit down and read anymore and I hate getting stuck in Eliana's chapter's. I like the solution of the audiobook because the narrator has a lovely voice to listen to. You don't think that her voice is wrong for what she's speaking for and I may finally be able to get this book completed!
Is this a bad book? No, it's not, I'm just not attached to this book the way that others seem to be or the way that I thought that I would be, since I was so excited for this book when I got it.
It may be more exciting when I get to the last few chapters, a lot of books get exciting at the end which is where they finally get you, but it shouldn't really be where they get you. I should have been emotionally attached since the end of chapter 2, but I only have real sentiment for Rielle at this point.
I love Zahra, and Lu, and how they seem to be the main support casts that have so much the best interests at heart.
I'm almost done at this point because the audiobook is helping me get this far, and I hate that its finally getting good this late but I also wish that we can do without the irrelevant sex scenes because they do little for the plot of the book.
It was such a dick move of Tal to make her go back through her parents burning home for the second time in her life with a crowd watching her. I don't like Tal to begin with, he gives me pedophile vibes and I'm not sure if I'm the only one who feels it but I will sure say it!
Just finished it, and I have some thoughts. I think that Zahra and Lu are the same person, and I didn't see the twist with Lu coming. I thought she was gone for good and then boom there she is and she's been like this for years! The three of them could be the ultimate poly couple if the world wasn't filled with cowards but I guess I can settle with the way things are because Audric loves Rielle, and Rielle loves him.
Simon and Eliana feels forced to me, and like there was no real development there. I'm sort of hoping that they get it out of their system in book 2, and then be on their way with Eliana fixing the world and kicking Corien's ass.
Corien can fight me, because this is all his fault and they all blame Rielle. The girl who wanted love. I feel so angry for her, and low key want her to know that out of the two Queens I'm rooting on her the most even though I know exactly what happens to her.
I hope Rielle, Audric, and Lu are happy in the afterlife together because they deserve that much, and that's that. That's all.
{I recieved an e-arc of this book via Edelweiss and the publisher in exchange for an honest review*
Oh friends, oh dear sweet book-loving friends, on May 22nd of the 2018th year of my Queen Claire, you are all going to be in for SUCH A TREAT.
I like to say that there are a lot of different levels of love we can have for a book. We like them, we love them, we obsess over them, and then there are the ones we connect with so passionately that every inked syllable nestles against our ribcage and becomes a part of our spirits.
Furyborn is a story like that. It's a tale that stretches across worlds and time itself. It goes on forever and at the same time you feel like the story is over too soon and you literally don't know what you're going to do with yourself, because Legrand's world now feels like your home away from home and you might very well explode if you don't find out what happens next right now this instance.
Things you are going to get out of this book.
IMAGERY: This world is going to rise from the pages made of metal and water and air and earth and heart and fear and Legrand is going to put vivid clarity to the tangible aspects of the setting, but she is also going to paint colors across your heart with how even thoughts and emotions seem to become palpable and solid enough to reach out and touch. You are going to be in a daze between chapters, you are going to be unable to get your head out of this fantasy that is built on such amazing detail it feels utterly real.
CHARACTER: You are going to fall in love with the cast; the villains, the heroes, the people straddling the lines between. Rielle and Eliana will reflect pieces of yourself back at you, pieces of your best friends and the people that you love. You will scream for them, in triumph and in terror, your heart will seem to stretch and grow with the development of their characters. The coolest thing about this is that the development happens in these two worlds that are separated by vast amounts of time. Pieces of Eliana's story give you insight into Rielle and vice versa and the brilliance of this fact will knock your socks off at regular intervals. There are so many precious cinnamon rolls in this book; Harken, Eliana's brother Remy, Ludivine, Audric. We know that Rielle and Eliana are the stars here, but every character has purpose and heart and a soul that surrounds you completely. The story would not be the same without any of these characters.
ACTION: Like holy moly mother of god, I've read good action scenes from Legrand before, but remember there are two storylines happening at the same time. So you go from one chapter where a battle is taking place, to the next chapter where a different life or death heart hammering situation is occurring, and basically there is ALWAYS some sort of internal or external action happening at all times that has you feeling like if anyone tries to talk to you or take your attention away from the storyline you might snap because you are wound up as tightly as if your own life is on the line. AND THE ACTION SCENARIOS THEMSELVES ARE JUST SO COOL. AND BEYOND BEING HEART PALPITATINGLY INTENSE YOU'RE ALSO JUST TRYING TO SOAK EVERYTHING UP WITH SHARP EYES LOOKING FOR EASTER EGG HINTS OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT AND FOR EVERY MOMENT WHEN THE TWO STORYLINES START TO STITCH THEMSELVES TOGETHER.
PLOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! : You are not even going to know what to do with yourselves. Because again, there's two plots happening; Rielle's storyline and Eliana's storyline. Those plots are brilliant and mind blowing and soaked with detail and moments of OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS LIKE THAT BUT I WAS WRONG, or moments of GOD I THOUGHT MAYBE AND I WANTED TO BE WRONG AND I'M NOT WRONG AND MY EMOTIONS ARE FIRE!!! But friends, I promise you. Nothing is going to prepare you for the big overlaps, the sudden plot twists, the big reveals that had me keyboard slamming and live tweeting sans spoilers and all abstract squealing and ugly crying all over the place.
FANTASY: This gets it's own subcategory because it's important, or at least it felt VERY important to me when I was reading. See fantasy has to balance itself out. You want a book grounded in some level of identifiable reality, but you also want to be swept up in something vibrant and seemingly impossible. Legrand walks this line, and then she does like somersaults and backflips and pretty much picks the line up and makes a balloon animal out of it. The emotions in this story are the backbone of the reality of it. The way the characters feel and react to the fantastical situations around them are familiar and make everything else in the world feel more familiar too. But then you the reader are thrown for a loop because the fantastic elements like magic and godsbeasts that you've seen in other stories feel so different and unique. Legrand did things with fantasy elements and species that I've never seen done before, and it's like each element builds on top of the next and you can feel the time that was put into making this world EVERYTHING; an escape, a coming home to every daydream you ever might have had as a kid.
When you're done, you're going to feel foggy around the edges, like you went on such a long adventure that you have emotional jetlag and the real world around you doesn't feel right because you're pretty sure you now belong among Queens and trials and rebellions and magic. You are also going to have questions, as you should because this is the first in a series and there is SO MUCH MORE TO COME. Enough threads have linked to make you feel feverish with excitement, enough emotion has soaked you through to the bone that these characters are now your friends and your family and its pretty much a countdown to when you go back to page one and start rereading. *For me the reread started less than 24 hours after I finished*
May 22nd cannot come fast enough, fantasy lovers. You NEED this story in your life. You will scream and cry and cheer and ponder, you will get surprised, confused, betrayed and angry along with the characters. You will try to piece together the tidbits of the storyline. Really this is more than a fantasy, there is a mystery, there is a sci fi undertone, there is a coming of age for two girls caught in a prophecy bigger than either of them alone. I'm 100% confident there are things for EVERYONE to fall in love with in Furyborn.
So add it to your TBR lists. Start doing some emotional stretching. Get your daydreams fired up and ready to be inspired, preorder the HECK out of this. And when you're done, come find me and we will cry and squeal together and try to figure out how we are going to survive the wait for book two.
Oh friends, oh dear sweet book-loving friends, on May 22nd of the 2018th year of my Queen Claire, you are all going to be in for SUCH A TREAT.
I like to say that there are a lot of different levels of love we can have for a book. We like them, we love them, we obsess over them, and then there are the ones we connect with so passionately that every inked syllable nestles against our ribcage and becomes a part of our spirits.
Furyborn is a story like that. It's a tale that stretches across worlds and time itself. It goes on forever and at the same time you feel like the story is over too soon and you literally don't know what you're going to do with yourself, because Legrand's world now feels like your home away from home and you might very well explode if you don't find out what happens next right now this instance.
Things you are going to get out of this book.
IMAGERY: This world is going to rise from the pages made of metal and water and air and earth and heart and fear and Legrand is going to put vivid clarity to the tangible aspects of the setting, but she is also going to paint colors across your heart with how even thoughts and emotions seem to become palpable and solid enough to reach out and touch. You are going to be in a daze between chapters, you are going to be unable to get your head out of this fantasy that is built on such amazing detail it feels utterly real.
CHARACTER: You are going to fall in love with the cast; the villains, the heroes, the people straddling the lines between. Rielle and Eliana will reflect pieces of yourself back at you, pieces of your best friends and the people that you love. You will scream for them, in triumph and in terror, your heart will seem to stretch and grow with the development of their characters. The coolest thing about this is that the development happens in these two worlds that are separated by vast amounts of time. Pieces of Eliana's story give you insight into Rielle and vice versa and the brilliance of this fact will knock your socks off at regular intervals. There are so many precious cinnamon rolls in this book; Harken, Eliana's brother Remy, Ludivine, Audric. We know that Rielle and Eliana are the stars here, but every character has purpose and heart and a soul that surrounds you completely. The story would not be the same without any of these characters.
ACTION: Like holy moly mother of god, I've read good action scenes from Legrand before, but remember there are two storylines happening at the same time. So you go from one chapter where a battle is taking place, to the next chapter where a different life or death heart hammering situation is occurring, and basically there is ALWAYS some sort of internal or external action happening at all times that has you feeling like if anyone tries to talk to you or take your attention away from the storyline you might snap because you are wound up as tightly as if your own life is on the line. AND THE ACTION SCENARIOS THEMSELVES ARE JUST SO COOL. AND BEYOND BEING HEART PALPITATINGLY INTENSE YOU'RE ALSO JUST TRYING TO SOAK EVERYTHING UP WITH SHARP EYES LOOKING FOR EASTER EGG HINTS OF WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT AND FOR EVERY MOMENT WHEN THE TWO STORYLINES START TO STITCH THEMSELVES TOGETHER.
PLOT!!!!!!!!!!!!! : You are not even going to know what to do with yourselves. Because again, there's two plots happening; Rielle's storyline and Eliana's storyline. Those plots are brilliant and mind blowing and soaked with detail and moments of OH MY GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS LIKE THAT BUT I WAS WRONG, or moments of GOD I THOUGHT MAYBE AND I WANTED TO BE WRONG AND I'M NOT WRONG AND MY EMOTIONS ARE FIRE!!! But friends, I promise you. Nothing is going to prepare you for the big overlaps, the sudden plot twists, the big reveals that had me keyboard slamming and live tweeting sans spoilers and all abstract squealing and ugly crying all over the place.
FANTASY: This gets it's own subcategory because it's important, or at least it felt VERY important to me when I was reading. See fantasy has to balance itself out. You want a book grounded in some level of identifiable reality, but you also want to be swept up in something vibrant and seemingly impossible. Legrand walks this line, and then she does like somersaults and backflips and pretty much picks the line up and makes a balloon animal out of it. The emotions in this story are the backbone of the reality of it. The way the characters feel and react to the fantastical situations around them are familiar and make everything else in the world feel more familiar too. But then you the reader are thrown for a loop because the fantastic elements like magic and godsbeasts that you've seen in other stories feel so different and unique. Legrand did things with fantasy elements and species that I've never seen done before, and it's like each element builds on top of the next and you can feel the time that was put into making this world EVERYTHING; an escape, a coming home to every daydream you ever might have had as a kid.
When you're done, you're going to feel foggy around the edges, like you went on such a long adventure that you have emotional jetlag and the real world around you doesn't feel right because you're pretty sure you now belong among Queens and trials and rebellions and magic. You are also going to have questions, as you should because this is the first in a series and there is SO MUCH MORE TO COME. Enough threads have linked to make you feel feverish with excitement, enough emotion has soaked you through to the bone that these characters are now your friends and your family and its pretty much a countdown to when you go back to page one and start rereading. *For me the reread started less than 24 hours after I finished*
May 22nd cannot come fast enough, fantasy lovers. You NEED this story in your life. You will scream and cry and cheer and ponder, you will get surprised, confused, betrayed and angry along with the characters. You will try to piece together the tidbits of the storyline. Really this is more than a fantasy, there is a mystery, there is a sci fi undertone, there is a coming of age for two girls caught in a prophecy bigger than either of them alone. I'm 100% confident there are things for EVERYONE to fall in love with in Furyborn.
So add it to your TBR lists. Start doing some emotional stretching. Get your daydreams fired up and ready to be inspired, preorder the HECK out of this. And when you're done, come find me and we will cry and squeal together and try to figure out how we are going to survive the wait for book two.
3.5
It's been a long time since I read a book with Angel's and I loved the way Claire Legrand described them in Furyborn. They are so different then what we see in other books and it was refreshing.
We follow to different POV in this book. Rielle (in the past time), also none as the Sun Queen, and Eliana (in the present time) and in every chapters we switch between both POV's. I cannot say that I disliked the 2 POV's in this book, I will definitely not want a book with only one of the 2 POV's, but there's a lot of time in the story that I did not care about Rielle POV's and I just wanted to know more about Eliana's story. Rielle's POV is really important for the story so we cannot skip it, but I think that POV's could have used a lot of amelioration to make it more enjoyable.
I love the magic system that we have in Furyborn and the world building is great. But because of the 2 POV's I don't feel attached to any of the characters in the story and for me it's something really important.
It's been a long time since I read a book with Angel's and I loved the way Claire Legrand described them in Furyborn. They are so different then what we see in other books and it was refreshing.
We follow to different POV in this book. Rielle (in the past time), also none as the Sun Queen, and Eliana (in the present time) and in every chapters we switch between both POV's. I cannot say that I disliked the 2 POV's in this book, I will definitely not want a book with only one of the 2 POV's, but there's a lot of time in the story that I did not care about Rielle POV's and I just wanted to know more about Eliana's story. Rielle's POV is really important for the story so we cannot skip it, but I think that POV's could have used a lot of amelioration to make it more enjoyable.
I love the magic system that we have in Furyborn and the world building is great. But because of the 2 POV's I don't feel attached to any of the characters in the story and for me it's something really important.
This is one of those cases where I can’t make up my mind on whether or not I enjoyed a book. Furyborn has all the elements that make a book great: an interesting worldbuilding, a fascinating magic system, shady villains…I also enjoyed the two separate timelines. Yet, I progressively found myself caring less and less of what was happening in the story. How can someone like a book and not like it at the same time? I’ve been asking myself the same question since I finished this.
When I first began reading Furyborn, I was immediately intrigued by the amazing prologue. Unfortunately, the more I went forward with the story, the more I wish the prologue hadn’t been there. It gives away the ending of Rielle’s story, and if you’re someone who reads lots of fantasy like I do, you’ll likely guess Eliana’s storyline, too. Furthermore, I first enjoyed Rielle’s chapters more than Eliana’s, for the sole reason that Eliana reminded me a lot of Aelin from [b:Throne of Glass|7896527|Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)|Sarah J. Maas|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1495278054l/7896527._SY75_.jpg|11138426] by Sarah J. Maas. Both Eliana and Aelin make stupid decisions in the name of being either stubborn or sassy. However, sometime during Rielle’s story, I began to lose interest for her as well. I think my problem was mainly with the trials she has to face. It felt like we were reading a lot of the same thing happening over and over again and those chapters removed my attention from Audric, who could have become a new book boyfriend had I cared for him a little more.
This being the situation, I found myself continuing the book propelled by the curiosity of knowing whether I was right or not. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a fan of how Eliana’s big reveal happened. It would have been more impactful if Eliana had found out the truth on her own, or if it had been Simon to tell her, rather than having a new character appear out of nowhere. Once the reveal happened, I had to push through the last 20% or so of the book. I thought everything that was happening was actually pretty cool, but I didn’t care about what happened to the characters.
I do believe that Furyborn is a read others could enjoy. Just because I didn’t grow attached to the characters doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t. I do believe that I would have enjoyed the book more if the prologue, cool as it may have been, hadn’t been there because it gives a lot away, or if we’d been left wondering about Eliana’s connection to Rielle a little longer.
When I first began reading Furyborn, I was immediately intrigued by the amazing prologue. Unfortunately, the more I went forward with the story, the more I wish the prologue hadn’t been there. It gives away the ending of Rielle’s story, and if you’re someone who reads lots of fantasy like I do, you’ll likely guess Eliana’s storyline, too. Furthermore, I first enjoyed Rielle’s chapters more than Eliana’s, for the sole reason that Eliana reminded me a lot of Aelin from [b:Throne of Glass|7896527|Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)|Sarah J. Maas|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1495278054l/7896527._SY75_.jpg|11138426] by Sarah J. Maas. Both Eliana and Aelin make stupid decisions in the name of being either stubborn or sassy. However, sometime during Rielle’s story, I began to lose interest for her as well. I think my problem was mainly with the trials she has to face. It felt like we were reading a lot of the same thing happening over and over again and those chapters removed my attention from Audric, who could have become a new book boyfriend had I cared for him a little more.
This being the situation, I found myself continuing the book propelled by the curiosity of knowing whether I was right or not. Unfortunately, I wasn’t a fan of how Eliana’s big reveal happened. It would have been more impactful if Eliana had found out the truth on her own, or if it had been Simon to tell her, rather than having a new character appear out of nowhere. Once the reveal happened, I had to push through the last 20% or so of the book. I thought everything that was happening was actually pretty cool, but I didn’t care about what happened to the characters.
I do believe that Furyborn is a read others could enjoy. Just because I didn’t grow attached to the characters doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t. I do believe that I would have enjoyed the book more if the prologue, cool as it may have been, hadn’t been there because it gives a lot away, or if we’d been left wondering about Eliana’s connection to Rielle a little longer.
This book was so much better than I was actually expecting it to be!! I LOVED the dual POV. I really enjoyed the storytelling and was able to savor the story. It was a really fun read for me. It was fast paced, action packed, and full of suspense. I already have the second book downloaded on my Kindle…..