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A review by silkcaramel
Fury by Shirley Marr
5.0
THIS BOOK. I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I LOVED IT AND HOW MUCH EVERY GIRL IN THIS PLANET SHOULD READ THIS AMAZING PIECE OF WRITING. Seriously. My feels are all over the place. I've been wanting to read this book ever since I got on GR, pratically, but it was only available in Australia. THANKFULLY, a good friend of mine went there for vacation with her parents and she gave me the book as a gift when she got back (I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, LAVI!). My friends are awesome, I know. And, obviously, I started it right away.
It got me hooked from the very first word. Shirley Marr's writing is fluid and she manages to make you tense and on the edge of your sit the entire book, while she slowly uncovers the mystery of what happened to get 3 teenage girls to a police station and one of them confessing to murder. That's how the book starts. We get to meet our MC, Eliza Boans, a rich, priviledged mean girl from East Rivermoore, the exclusive neighborhood for the aussie elite. But if you think Eliza is the typical mean girl from YA contemporary books or if you think this is your typical YA book, THINK AGAIN. Eliza doesn't hide from anyone the fact that she is spoiled, mean and bitch, and while we get to understand why she's that way through the book, she doesn't try to make herself the victim at any moment. She doesn't try to earn your pity, or anyone else's for the matter, and she's not sorry for who she is and what she did. Her sarcasm, intelligence, dark humor and no-nonsense attitude and the fact that she doesn't sugarcoat things or is fake with anyone won me over completely. She is by far one of my favorite MCs in YA literature, especially contemporary YA.
I LOVED her relationship with her best friends, Lexi and Marianne, and the sorority and tight friendship between them, even though they have their differences, especially Mari and Eliza. Their relationship, as well as Eliza's relationship with Neil (MY POOR HEART), was one of my favorite things about this book.
Also, the way Marr interwoven the myth of The Furies with the story and serious themes like victim's blame, sexism, male priviledge and others was so so good! To have a YA book, told through the POV of a teenage girl, that talks about those issues in a real and believable way, without sugarcoating anything but also in a way that's understandable it's so important. I was, during certain scenes, absolutely furious (pun intended) about what was happening and most importantly, that it was something totally worth of happening in real life. Hell, it's something that happens FREQUENTLY. And by the end of the book, you'll want to help the three Furys yourself.
The ending of the book left me in pieces but at the same time wanting more. I wanted to follow Eliza, Lexi and Marianne a little bit longer, see how they were after everything. I felt I needed an epilogue, but I can see why the author chose not to give us one and it didn't take anything away from the true beauty that is this book. If you have a chance, GO READ THIS NOW. Seriously. Go.
This book reminded me of Dare Me, by Megan Abbot, even though they are entirely different. I think it's because I felt the same way I did while reading Dare Me, that tension, that uneasiness, the dread of what was coming, but the need to know what happens next and not wanting to put the book down. I kinda like these kinds of books, I think.
5 furious stars. Eliza and her friends will be on my mind for a long while.
It got me hooked from the very first word. Shirley Marr's writing is fluid and she manages to make you tense and on the edge of your sit the entire book, while she slowly uncovers the mystery of what happened to get 3 teenage girls to a police station and one of them confessing to murder. That's how the book starts. We get to meet our MC, Eliza Boans, a rich, priviledged mean girl from East Rivermoore, the exclusive neighborhood for the aussie elite. But if you think Eliza is the typical mean girl from YA contemporary books or if you think this is your typical YA book, THINK AGAIN. Eliza doesn't hide from anyone the fact that she is spoiled, mean and bitch, and while we get to understand why she's that way through the book, she doesn't try to make herself the victim at any moment. She doesn't try to earn your pity, or anyone else's for the matter, and she's not sorry for who she is and what she did. Her sarcasm, intelligence, dark humor and no-nonsense attitude and the fact that she doesn't sugarcoat things or is fake with anyone won me over completely. She is by far one of my favorite MCs in YA literature, especially contemporary YA.
I LOVED her relationship with her best friends, Lexi and Marianne, and the sorority and tight friendship between them, even though they have their differences, especially Mari and Eliza. Their relationship, as well as Eliza's relationship with Neil (MY POOR HEART), was one of my favorite things about this book.
Also, the way Marr interwoven the myth of The Furies with the story and serious themes like victim's blame, sexism, male priviledge and others was so so good! To have a YA book, told through the POV of a teenage girl, that talks about those issues in a real and believable way, without sugarcoating anything but also in a way that's understandable it's so important. I was, during certain scenes, absolutely furious (pun intended) about what was happening and most importantly, that it was something totally worth of happening in real life. Hell, it's something that happens FREQUENTLY. And by the end of the book, you'll want to help the three Furys yourself.
The ending of the book left me in pieces but at the same time wanting more. I wanted to follow Eliza, Lexi and Marianne a little bit longer, see how they were after everything. I felt I needed an epilogue, but I can see why the author chose not to give us one and it didn't take anything away from the true beauty that is this book. If you have a chance, GO READ THIS NOW. Seriously. Go.
This book reminded me of Dare Me, by Megan Abbot, even though they are entirely different. I think it's because I felt the same way I did while reading Dare Me, that tension, that uneasiness, the dread of what was coming, but the need to know what happens next and not wanting to put the book down. I kinda like these kinds of books, I think.
5 furious stars. Eliza and her friends will be on my mind for a long while.