Addictive and Unputdownable!
Fun fact: When I had my first heart surgery, I was reading The Silent Patient, and I didn’t know if it would be the last book that I ever read. At least it was good!
The narrator, Elliot Chase, is on a Greek Island with ex-movie star, Lana Farrar, and her group. Until shots ring out in the night and a body lays by the ruins.
Who did it and what lead up to that moment?
Wow-weeee! The prose. The prose is so extremely smooth and natural that the story reads like a bedtime story, exactly the way a friendly person would talk.
The narrator is really second to none. In fact, I was trying to recall the last time that I heard such dazzling narrative voice, and I was thinking back to my theatrical guide at The Globe Theatre in London.
The Fury is told in a very similar format to the Netflix hit, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, where you will see a scene play out and then you will see the scene play out again with a bit different perspective.
I also loved the nod to The Silent Patient.
The characters had some depth and complexity to them, and Michaelides does a phenomenal job introducing all of the characters and providing background without information dumping. The pacing is perfect!
To smooth a book to this level really takes my breath away.
Fun fact: When I had my first heart surgery, I was reading The Silent Patient, and I didn’t know if it would be the last book that I ever read. At least it was good!
The narrator, Elliot Chase, is on a Greek Island with ex-movie star, Lana Farrar, and her group. Until shots ring out in the night and a body lays by the ruins.
Who did it and what lead up to that moment?
Wow-weeee! The prose. The prose is so extremely smooth and natural that the story reads like a bedtime story, exactly the way a friendly person would talk.
The narrator is really second to none. In fact, I was trying to recall the last time that I heard such dazzling narrative voice, and I was thinking back to my theatrical guide at The Globe Theatre in London.
The Fury is told in a very similar format to the Netflix hit, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, where you will see a scene play out and then you will see the scene play out again with a bit different perspective.
I also loved the nod to The Silent Patient.
The characters had some depth and complexity to them, and Michaelides does a phenomenal job introducing all of the characters and providing background without information dumping. The pacing is perfect!
To smooth a book to this level really takes my breath away.