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Furyborn
by Claire Legrand
{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.