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A review by bigtiddygothgf
Furyborn by Claire Legrand
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
"furyborn" tells the story of two women with a thousand years separating them but their stories are linked together by the powers they share and the prophecy that joins them.
i'm trying to come up with something clever or witty or put together to say about this book but the truth is i don't really have an opinion. i was tempted to dnf more times that i have fingers and ended up getting bored and interested in a never ending cycle until the book ended. i don't have a put together way of telling my thoughts so instead we are going to have a bullet list!
SPOILERS continue if you don't care, of if you plan to read this book in the future but have a bad memory (u know who u are.... <3)
* the dual povs fucked up the pace of the book SEVERELY for me. i would get interested in rielle's pov and just as i was getting immersed in her story, it would do a hard cut to elianna, which would take me out of the story, and just when i was brought back in i was yanked out in the next chapter. having the two story lines together that eventually weave together is interesting, but the way it was done just continued to take me out of the story and also fucked up the pacing in the individual story lines
* LOVED rielle at the beginning, couldn't stand her at the end. i know she going on her #villianjourney but i personally just couldn't find her very likable T-T she gave the vibe of someone in high school who would mansplain how ~deep~ attack on titan is EVEN THO WE ALL KNOW. someone who flexes her intelligence and strength while being the dumbest bitch on the planet.
* ELIANNA WAS SUCH A PICK ME OMG. "i'm not like other girls, i'm a killer!" SHUT. UP! i'm all behind tortured assassin who doesn't mind killing people, i'm all behind it, but dear god at least make them likable. i liked elianna at the end, and her story was by far the most interesting out of the two but elianna was the main factor of my contemplation for dnf'ing.
* corien. don't. even. get. me. started. i HATE, HATE the plotline of this young (usually underage) girl who has immense power getting groomed by this dark, "hot", usually shadowy figure who ends up completely screwing her over but yet the girl still crawls back to him. this was done in "shadow and bone" and it was done here with corien and rielle and i despise it. i understand the reasoning behind the trope; it;s meant to show the corruption of purity and how younger girls are led down these paths by attractive men who are the real monsters. but this book does not make that distinction. corien is the voice in rielle's head that urges her to use her powers in increasingly worrying ways- sick, awesome, i see the idea! however when he starts to "stroke" her mind and rielle caves immediately because he's attractive (despite claiming to be madly in love with audric btw) AND HAS A SEX DREAM ABOUT HIM THEN PROMPTLY WAKES UP AND RUBS ONE OUT it genuinely boggles me. she has no reason to trust him! no reason to find him attractive! he. has. NO. body!!!! i don't know why she liked corien at all, i can get having sex dream but being into him?? GIRL NO. it's a personal hatred of the trope i have which made me HATE this part and turned rielle into this fickle girl instead of someone who is genuinely corrupted and turned evil as we see later.
*SIMON- dude i would be like "i can get behind this guy!" then he would say some shit like "my sins have been absolved by The Prophet" and my cooch would close. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PROPHET?? ARE U MORMON?? that was my general vibe with simon- he was a complex character that I could get behind and then would drop some shit like that or say something misogynistic and the vibe would die. him and elianna match each other rlly well tho
*sex positive- while i did bitch about rielle and corien (don't get me started again) i found the way the female mcs talked about and engaged in sex to be a breath of fresh air. they engaged in sex and had those feelings and it was never treated as something against them or something empowering for them, it was something they did because they wanted to. very refreshing for fantasy in 2018 and i did appreciate that!
*magic system: guy idk what was going on with the magic, i just nodded and moved on LMAO. if u asked me about the magic system rn, i couldn't tell you
*elianna's plot midway through the book: best part hands down. elianna mid-book was what convinced me to finish this book, her being stuck among these rebels after killing some of them and having to keep her brother safe? banger. best part of the book
kk now i'm done. i know it sounds like i hated this book, but i didn't rlly, it was a read. i don't remember most of it T-T it was okay, solid three stars.
i'm trying to come up with something clever or witty or put together to say about this book but the truth is i don't really have an opinion. i was tempted to dnf more times that i have fingers and ended up getting bored and interested in a never ending cycle until the book ended. i don't have a put together way of telling my thoughts so instead we are going to have a bullet list!
SPOILERS continue if you don't care, of if you plan to read this book in the future but have a bad memory (u know who u are.... <3)
* the dual povs fucked up the pace of the book SEVERELY for me. i would get interested in rielle's pov and just as i was getting immersed in her story, it would do a hard cut to elianna, which would take me out of the story, and just when i was brought back in i was yanked out in the next chapter. having the two story lines together that eventually weave together is interesting, but the way it was done just continued to take me out of the story and also fucked up the pacing in the individual story lines
* LOVED rielle at the beginning, couldn't stand her at the end. i know she going on her #villianjourney but i personally just couldn't find her very likable T-T she gave the vibe of someone in high school who would mansplain how ~deep~ attack on titan is EVEN THO WE ALL KNOW. someone who flexes her intelligence and strength while being the dumbest bitch on the planet.
* ELIANNA WAS SUCH A PICK ME OMG. "i'm not like other girls, i'm a killer!" SHUT. UP! i'm all behind tortured assassin who doesn't mind killing people, i'm all behind it, but dear god at least make them likable. i liked elianna at the end, and her story was by far the most interesting out of the two but elianna was the main factor of my contemplation for dnf'ing.
* corien. don't. even. get. me. started. i HATE, HATE the plotline of this young (usually underage) girl who has immense power getting groomed by this dark, "hot", usually shadowy figure who ends up completely screwing her over but yet the girl still crawls back to him. this was done in "shadow and bone" and it was done here with corien and rielle and i despise it. i understand the reasoning behind the trope; it;s meant to show the corruption of purity and how younger girls are led down these paths by attractive men who are the real monsters. but this book does not make that distinction. corien is the voice in rielle's head that urges her to use her powers in increasingly worrying ways- sick, awesome, i see the idea! however when he starts to "stroke" her mind and rielle caves immediately because he's attractive (despite claiming to be madly in love with audric btw) AND HAS A SEX DREAM ABOUT HIM THEN PROMPTLY WAKES UP AND RUBS ONE OUT it genuinely boggles me. she has no reason to trust him! no reason to find him attractive! he. has. NO. body!!!! i don't know why she liked corien at all, i can get having sex dream but being into him?? GIRL NO. it's a personal hatred of the trope i have which made me HATE this part and turned rielle into this fickle girl instead of someone who is genuinely corrupted and turned evil as we see later.
*SIMON- dude i would be like "i can get behind this guy!" then he would say some shit like "my sins have been absolved by The Prophet" and my cooch would close. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PROPHET?? ARE U MORMON?? that was my general vibe with simon- he was a complex character that I could get behind and then would drop some shit like that or say something misogynistic and the vibe would die. him and elianna match each other rlly well tho
*sex positive- while i did bitch about rielle and corien (don't get me started again) i found the way the female mcs talked about and engaged in sex to be a breath of fresh air. they engaged in sex and had those feelings and it was never treated as something against them or something empowering for them, it was something they did because they wanted to. very refreshing for fantasy in 2018 and i did appreciate that!
*magic system: guy idk what was going on with the magic, i just nodded and moved on LMAO. if u asked me about the magic system rn, i couldn't tell you
*elianna's plot midway through the book: best part hands down. elianna mid-book was what convinced me to finish this book, her being stuck among these rebels after killing some of them and having to keep her brother safe? banger. best part of the book
kk now i'm done. i know it sounds like i hated this book, but i didn't rlly, it was a read. i don't remember most of it T-T it was okay, solid three stars.