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Furyborn
by Claire Legrand
DNF @ 40%
You know when you want to read something and sit down with your book, get through a few pages and just want to stop? Or you sit down, pick it up and end up on your phone because you just don’t want to read but do? Yeah this is that book in a nutshell. I just kept thinking about all the other books I have on my tbr piles and my tbr shelf on goodreads and realized that I didn’t want to read this.
I wanted to like it, I really did. It has so much of what I should have liked and the premise is so cool but it just doesn’t land. The duel POVs and plot-lines that are meant to be connected just do not flow together - especially when the prologue gives everything away. And the prologue was so good.
Eliana is horrible. I like morally gray characters, I really do and I love women in fiction that will be blood thirsty and harsh around the edges. But Eliana is just horrible. And it just made me uncomfortable reading her chapters when they bring her and her brother to the refugee camp and she just wants to kill them. Like she keeps talking about how she wishes she had her knives to kill them and hurt them and it’s like - I can’t stomach that at all. Like she looks down her nose at these people trying to survive the Empire and it’s just - girl, who died and made you king?
Also, by looking at some reviews, there’s explicit smut in this and - aren’t these characters teenagers? That’s a HARD PASS from me. And … isn’t Simon the kid that brings baby Eliana into the future? Why are they being made into a couple - like it’s obvious that’s what is happening from the moment they meet. He was there when she was born and they’re being shoved together?
Gross.
Last thing - the bisexual rep in this is horrible. There’s two passing comments from both POV’s about flirting with women or sleeping with women and that’s it. It’s never expanded on, it’s never made to be anything else but ~ I flirt with whoever ~ and it’s like, I’m going to have to skip out of the stereotype that bisexual people are promiscuous and, again, HARD PASS.
You know when you want to read something and sit down with your book, get through a few pages and just want to stop? Or you sit down, pick it up and end up on your phone because you just don’t want to read but do? Yeah this is that book in a nutshell. I just kept thinking about all the other books I have on my tbr piles and my tbr shelf on goodreads and realized that I didn’t want to read this.
I wanted to like it, I really did. It has so much of what I should have liked and the premise is so cool but it just doesn’t land. The duel POVs and plot-lines that are meant to be connected just do not flow together - especially when the prologue gives everything away. And the prologue was so good.
Spoiler
I was so interested in seeing how Rielle ends up as this villain, as the Queen of Blood, but I don’t know, it’s not interesting enough to stick through. I was also so interested in her relationship with that angel, that ends up in her head but again, it’s not grabbing me. Like she seems like she'll become this Anakin like character and I was ready - I stan Anakin, like I was ready. But ... I can't do it.Eliana is horrible. I like morally gray characters, I really do and I love women in fiction that will be blood thirsty and harsh around the edges. But Eliana is just horrible. And it just made me uncomfortable reading her chapters when they bring her and her brother to the refugee camp and she just wants to kill them. Like she keeps talking about how she wishes she had her knives to kill them and hurt them and it’s like - I can’t stomach that at all. Like she looks down her nose at these people trying to survive the Empire and it’s just - girl, who died and made you king?
Also, by looking at some reviews, there’s explicit smut in this and - aren’t these characters teenagers? That’s a HARD PASS from me. And … isn’t Simon the kid that brings baby Eliana into the future? Why are they being made into a couple - like it’s obvious that’s what is happening from the moment they meet. He was there when she was born and they’re being shoved together?
Gross.
Last thing - the bisexual rep in this is horrible. There’s two passing comments from both POV’s about flirting with women or sleeping with women and that’s it. It’s never expanded on, it’s never made to be anything else but ~ I flirt with whoever ~ and it’s like, I’m going to have to skip out of the stereotype that bisexual people are promiscuous and, again, HARD PASS.