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Furyborn
by Claire Legrand
3.5 solid stars.
This look me longer than normal because life is just that way. But this book was a great start to a trilogy. Good characters with a lot of growth potential. Good foundation to a setting and world building. Strong-ish magic system (we don’t get much about it and so I’m hoping that it’s more developed in the 2nd book). And honestly the writing was very easy to read. I would easily get through a 100 pages without feeling exhausted or tired from keeping along. There was a lot of fighting scenes (love!), some travel (love!), and really cool morally grey characters (the best kind).
The reason why it didn’t get a higher star rating is mainly for 3 things:
- there were just too many fantastical elements going on. Angels. Elementals. Fantastical beasts. Possessions. Wraiths. And the list goes on. So I felt that it was a bit crowed. But obviously it might all make sense the more I get into this trilogy but as fresh eyes coming into this book not knowing much of anything about it, it was a lot to mentally juggle.
- I guessed most if not all of the reveals that happened in this book. It was kind of obvious where it was going. But honestly that didn’t take away from just enjoying reading the book. Even when I guessed right, it didn’t detract from my need to know more.
- and finally, I didn’t feel like it was a wholly original, out of this world, one of a kind, fantasy book. It reminds me a lot of The Shadow and the Bone and to some extend SJM’s first 3 books in her first series (forgot the name since they all sounds the same). But yeah, similar vibes.
Overall, I did enjoy it and can’t wait to pick up and start the 2nd book in this trilogy.
This look me longer than normal because life is just that way. But this book was a great start to a trilogy. Good characters with a lot of growth potential. Good foundation to a setting and world building. Strong-ish magic system (we don’t get much about it and so I’m hoping that it’s more developed in the 2nd book). And honestly the writing was very easy to read. I would easily get through a 100 pages without feeling exhausted or tired from keeping along. There was a lot of fighting scenes (love!), some travel (love!), and really cool morally grey characters (the best kind).
The reason why it didn’t get a higher star rating is mainly for 3 things:
- there were just too many fantastical elements going on. Angels. Elementals. Fantastical beasts. Possessions. Wraiths. And the list goes on. So I felt that it was a bit crowed. But obviously it might all make sense the more I get into this trilogy but as fresh eyes coming into this book not knowing much of anything about it, it was a lot to mentally juggle.
- I guessed most if not all of the reveals that happened in this book. It was kind of obvious where it was going. But honestly that didn’t take away from just enjoying reading the book. Even when I guessed right, it didn’t detract from my need to know more.
- and finally, I didn’t feel like it was a wholly original, out of this world, one of a kind, fantasy book. It reminds me a lot of The Shadow and the Bone and to some extend SJM’s first 3 books in her first series (forgot the name since they all sounds the same). But yeah, similar vibes.
Overall, I did enjoy it and can’t wait to pick up and start the 2nd book in this trilogy.