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Furyborn by Claire Legrand

11 reviews

christinereads1823's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Definitely an... interesting start to a series. I liked parts of it, and the magic of the world is a cool concept, but I didn't love the execution and I didn't really connect with the characters. The constant time jumping between Rielle and Eliana was very confusing, especially in the first half of the book, and the prologue chapter gave away the reveal that happened close to the end. I almost think it would have worked better as an epilogue to connect everything and have the reader go "OH SHIT."
I'm invested in learning how Rielle

destroyed the world

, so I will be continuing the series for that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

kitkatkatdog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Meh. I love Rielle, and she might be the only reason I continue. Eliana just doesn’t hit the same. But the last few chapters she started to get me so we’ll see if she grows on me in the next one. Also, holy shit, Angels? Did not expect that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Kidnapping, War, Abandonment, Body horror, Violence, Sexism, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gore

Minor: Animal death and Adult/minor relationship

yriax's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Blood, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Child abuse, and Child death

rbjennings's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Violence, War, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Rape

meredith_williams_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I’ve had this book on my TBR for awhile and finally decided to give it a try. The beginning was a bit slow and some of the world building was a bit confusing. However, the story eventually picks up and I ended up enjoying it. The dual timeline was especially intriguing. I feel it made the mystery aspect more engaging and allows the reader to sympathize with both main characters even as they becoming increasingly more morally gray. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death of parent, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pregnancy, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cursing and Sexual content

modernathos's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I have to be honest, I almost DNF'd this book multiple times purely because it started out as such a drag. It's a five-hundred-pages-long brick of a book and should have been about three hundred pages shorter, because that's how long it took for the plot to finally pick up properly. I do have to be honest and say that, once the plot did pick up, I was hooked until the end. But on to the actual book now.

I quite liked Eliana as a character. The writing of her perspective at the start of the book showed how indoctrinated into her society she is really well and it was fascinating to read how she justifies some of the things she does, as unacceptable as they may be. It was also a good writer's choice to not have her morality make a 180 when she is literally face to face with the consequences of her actions. However, that is about where the logical character development ended for me. Legrand set up some beautiful storylines and relationships - Navi and Remy's friendship, Eliana and The Wolf's eventual friendship - but those were either thrown away or rushed. Additionally, Eliana's deal with The Wolf felt weird and forced. For someone who was willing to go to horrific lengths and had such faith in her repuation and importance to her society, she was very quick to turn her back on that same society and make a deal with a man who she had absolutely zero reason to trust. To summerize, a lot of the character development in this book felt forced and weird, especially on Eliana's side.

cw/tw: talk of NSFW and non-consent
Every moment that the characters were engaged in sexual activities or anything adjacent to it was, in my opinion, either too graphic or completely unnecessary. I mostly don't have any problem with sex, but it was mostly unnecessary to the plot and a bit too graphic for a book that classifies as Young Adult (12 - 18). Legrand should have especially been more careful with the way she describes certain sections that were either explicitly or assumably non-consensual but were described as fine. Again, Furyborn classifies itself as Young Adult, which means it is aimed primarily at minors, most of which will be just starting to explore their sexuality and comfort/discomfort and so might think that certain sections in the book are okay while they are not. This is just plain dangerous.

Also, except for one, maybe two times, the sex didn't add anything to the plot or characters except to show that 90% percent of the characters are predators, so in YA book it would have been better to just leave those sections out.

Finally,

Rielle and Audric having a relationship in which Audric is so loyal to her and risking everything while he is betrothed to Ludivine, while Rielle is horny for Corien is really fucked up

. In conclusion, the sexual parts of this book generally made me quite uncomfortable.
end of content/trigger warning

Will I read the rest of the series? Yes, I will, because the worldbuilding and main plot is generally quite good, if fairly poorly executed, and Legrand have a pleasant and enjoyable writing style. I really hope the 1100 pages the next to books take up combined will be worth it.

Rep: gay characters (MLM).
February 7th, 2023 - March 9th, 2023.

"Have you always been this unspeakably irritating?"
"Has your face always looked so temptingly carvable?" 

"Belief doesn't keep you alive."
"But, given time, it can win wars."

"I have heard rumors of what is done to them, these missing girls, and I hope my daughter is safely dead."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Cursing, Blood, Violence, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking, Trafficking, Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity

oliverreeds's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, War, Child death, Kidnapping, Gore, Cursing, Sexual content, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Blood

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Violence, Suicide, Animal death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Blood

fierceandlittle's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It was a little difficult to keep everything straight throughout the story and I feel like some things were left unexplained. It’s also important to note that this book switches points of view and time periods every chapter. I felt that it wasn’t the best choice to do so and that it would have been better to have 2 separate books with both POV as their own book. That way it could go into more detail and it might have been easier to keep things straight.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, and Sexual content

taelights's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Honestly I really enjoyed this one and will definitely be continuing with the series. It took me awhile to get into the book because the beginning was a bit slow and then the animal death scene towards the beginning was very graphic and difficult for me to listen to. But once the paced picked up and I made sense of some things that had confused me at first I was very hooked. 

I am not overly attached to either of the main girls to be honest but their stories still managed to intrigue me. While the romances did provide me some sexy inspiring quotes I could care less about them. The only one I'd care to see more of is Rielle and Corien but that's mostly because Corien is interesting to me and I want to see how his story plays out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Toxic relationship, War, Sexual content, Child abuse, Violence, Animal death, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Infidelity