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A review by janiqueodette
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
3.0
I found this book a bit hard to connect with, mostly because of the narrator and the writing.
First - the narrator. Elliot Chase was annoying beyond belief. I didn’t feel that I really got to know him because everything about his backstory was very ambiguous and minimal. The parts you do get to learn do make sense a bit for why he is the way he is, but I felt no connection to him. In fact, I despised him, hoping he was the murder victim by the end.
Second - the writing. I found this style of writing very confusing, hard to enjoy and get absorbed into because it bounces around everywhere. The majority of the book is written in first person from Elliot’s POV. But randomly, there will be a sentence or a paragraph that jumps to another persons point of view, without warning. I often had to go back a few sentences or a paragraph and read it again before catching that I was reading Kate, Lana, or Leo’s POV.
I had a fellow book club member mention this style was very different from The Silent Patient, and that was spot on. I didn’t like the way this was written at all.
Now for the story itself. Another review mentions “anticipation fatigue”, which I didn’t know was the term I was looking for until I read it. You’re left constantly in this state of “some thing happens, but I can’t tell you yet. But it’s good” for so long that by the time it happened, I could feel it coming. Unlike The Silent Patient, this did not leave me with a gasp of shock at the memorable twist at the end.
Overall, this book was a bit of a let down. Maybe my expectations were too high after the Silent Patient, and maybe that’s my own fault. I’ll still give his other book (the Maidens) a read, but I think I’ll lower my expectations after The Fury.
First - the narrator. Elliot Chase was annoying beyond belief. I didn’t feel that I really got to know him because everything about his backstory was very ambiguous and minimal. The parts you do get to learn do make sense a bit for why he is the way he is, but I felt no connection to him. In fact, I despised him, hoping he was the murder victim by the end.
Second - the writing. I found this style of writing very confusing, hard to enjoy and get absorbed into because it bounces around everywhere. The majority of the book is written in first person from Elliot’s POV. But randomly, there will be a sentence or a paragraph that jumps to another persons point of view, without warning. I often had to go back a few sentences or a paragraph and read it again before catching that I was reading Kate, Lana, or Leo’s POV.
I had a fellow book club member mention this style was very different from The Silent Patient, and that was spot on. I didn’t like the way this was written at all.
Now for the story itself. Another review mentions “anticipation fatigue”, which I didn’t know was the term I was looking for until I read it. You’re left constantly in this state of “some thing happens, but I can’t tell you yet. But it’s good” for so long that by the time it happened, I could feel it coming. Unlike The Silent Patient, this did not leave me with a gasp of shock at the memorable twist at the end.
Overall, this book was a bit of a let down. Maybe my expectations were too high after the Silent Patient, and maybe that’s my own fault. I’ll still give his other book (the Maidens) a read, but I think I’ll lower my expectations after The Fury.