Just a Set-Up Book

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Furyborn follows two different POV’s, in two different timelines: Rielle, the suspected Sun Queen, who need to through horrible trials to prove who she is. Eliana: Living one thousand years later in The Empire, where she joins the rebels to find her mother.

You know when you start a book, knowing it is the first one in a series, and you there is the “villain” or the “obstacle” in the world. And you wonder: Will this conflict be solved in this one? Or will we have the same conflict throughout the rest of the series? Sometimes, the book surprises and everything is solved and you are left to wonder: What will the rest of the series be about?! This leaves you with questions, but also with a fulfillment that the book had a points. It was not just an introduction or a little step on a very long journey.

I have read books where the conflict is solved in the first book, I’m not saying that this is the superior way to go, but it always leaves me in a very different state than when nothing has been solved in the first book. You thereby know that they are going to spend forever in the next few books, trying to solve this big obstacle in front of them. And for me, sometimes, that leaves the series dry and predicable.

Furyborn is that book where everything is a setup. I don’t think I have read more of setup book than this one, and it is a very very long one. I think the beginning really leads into something interesting, but then it goes back in times, us following Rielle knowing where her story goes. And I really hope that while us readers, THINK, we know what is going to happen to her, we have a surprise waiting for us in the next installments. At least I thought Rielle was sort of an interesting character.

Eliana’s story was very predictable and boring. It was so obvious everything that was coming for her that I really just rolled my eyes. EVERYTHING that happened to her doesn’t have a meaning before the next book, so it feels like this book just gave us nothing for all the pages we spent with her.

Now I get it, if you work on a series you want to have a plot in the whole series yes? But I felt unsatisfied, because nothing happened. Nothing was resolved. I was very tired by the end.

The book has some elements I liked though: the magic system, the angels, both of the MC’s being bisexual. Still not enough the carry the whole book, even though yes, I will continue reading it. I’m hoping after all this setup, book two will be where the action goes down! 2.5/5 stars.