Furyborn by Claire Legrand || 3.5/5
Follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.
When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.
A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.
As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world–and of each other.
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- Overall, this was a moderately entertaining book. However, I was bored.
- The completely different storylines were interesting, almost like two books in one, but the alternating chapters made it choppy.
- I was also far more interested in Eliana’s story, and I found myself slogging through Rielle’s chapters to get to them.
- It’s curious trying to figure out who the Sun Queen and Blood Queen are. It’s interesting figuring out which characters are good people and who to root for.
- The characters aren’t developed. I didn’t really care about them.
- I feel like this book is really similar to Children of Blood and Bone by the overall feeling of the book and what I thought of it. Too much action and not enough development.
- The storyline is eerily similar to that of Throne of Glass.
- Confusing at times.
- Nice concept, poor execution.
Read 8/2/2018 – 8/9/2018
Currently Reading: Keeper of the Lost Cities: Everblaze by Shannon Messenger
Recently Finished: Vicious by V.E. Schwab
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hmmm, and i thought this one held such promise.
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It was decently entertaining, but I’d rather read different books. I still have to decide whether it’s worth it to pick up the second book.
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