First things first: I loved this book. I enjoyed it so much, in fact, that I had to pace myself as I read. Although I wanted to devour Furyborn, I also wanted to savor it. The more I read, the more intrigued I became, and I didn’t want to get to the end because I didn’t want to leave Eliana and Rielle’s story. The story centers on two powerful and complicated young women, Rielle Dardenne and Eliana Ferracora, who are, at first meeting, vastly different in circumstances and quite similar in temperament. One is an aristocrat endowed with so much magic that she’s been sheltered and isolated most of her life, and the other is an infamous thug for the Undying Empire. Both are fierce, confident, recalcitrant, and determined to get what they want from a world that seems unwilling to give them anything at all. And, even more compelling, they’re separated by a thousand years but clearly connected by a destiny that one seeks and the other ignores.
Legrand has created a fascinating, original world filled with fresh takes on familiar tropes: angels, elemental magic, unwitting and unwilling heroes, battles between good and evil, arcane mysteries, prophecies, and legends. Through epigraphs and real-time action with minimal direct exposition, we get a clear sense of a captivating and meticulously crafted world of rich mythology and ambiguous history that keeps the reader alert for clues to the truth of the Empirium and the two queens. Alternating points of view illuminate the characters’ strengths and failings, underscoring their messiness as they hurtle toward revelations and outcomes that will profoundly alter not only their own lives, but also the lives of those standing in the blast zone around them. There’s action, both magical and ass-kicking, rebellion, fury, fear, deception, and doom. Seriously, you want to read this one today. Prepare to lose sleep because you can’t put it down.
Legrand has created a fascinating, original world filled with fresh takes on familiar tropes: angels, elemental magic, unwitting and unwilling heroes, battles between good and evil, arcane mysteries, prophecies, and legends. Through epigraphs and real-time action with minimal direct exposition, we get a clear sense of a captivating and meticulously crafted world of rich mythology and ambiguous history that keeps the reader alert for clues to the truth of the Empirium and the two queens. Alternating points of view illuminate the characters’ strengths and failings, underscoring their messiness as they hurtle toward revelations and outcomes that will profoundly alter not only their own lives, but also the lives of those standing in the blast zone around them. There’s action, both magical and ass-kicking, rebellion, fury, fear, deception, and doom. Seriously, you want to read this one today. Prepare to lose sleep because you can’t put it down.