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A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe
5.0
“The Stone Chooses the last alchemist, but woe to whom it does not accept”
The Philosopher’s Stone, that ruby red stone that has been filled with eternal life, power, ability to create gold and making one wealthy. This stone has been covered by numerous authors in numerous veins. This stone is full of mystical lore. Ms. Cohoe’s debut novel takes a deeper angle on the stone and the creation of it and the Curse that is said to be attached to the stone.
A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe is a wildly fast-moving, grippingly entertaining fantasy about the power and desire that the mystical Philosopher’s Stone can create in an Alchemist’s soul.
Theosebeia Hope is a gifted daughter of a gifted, sought after Alchemist mother living in Normandy France in the middle of 1792 during the French Revolution. Alchemy, according to the Oxford Language Dictionary is “the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir.” Thea’s story begins when her mother goes mad trying to make the Philosopher’s Stone. Thea leaves France to search out her never met father who teaches at Oxford. She meets Dominic, her father’s apprentice and the story goes on from there. Thea’s life is starting to blossom with love for her mother’s apprentice Will. Her world blows up when her mother goes mad. It becomes full of hate, struggle, magic, and learning to navigate the world on her own terms all the while trying to right so many wrongs that have happened since her mother’s attempt at making the Philosopher’s Stone. There are many boulders in her way, so she has to decide if certain boulders would be easier to move or to climb over.
A Golden Fury is a dark, Intriguing book that you want to read for the pure thrill and creepiness of it. It is a book that will drag you in, stir the blood in your veins, make you crazy, and then spit you out when you least expect it. It is wrapped up in a pretty bow at the end which feels right for so many odd unexplained reasons in this brilliant debuting novel.
Ms. Cohoe has written a smart, gutsy character in Theosebeia Hope. The supporting characters fit their roles perfectly and even though there are a few people that Thea encounters in her adventure of creating the Philosopher’s Stone that you are driven to hate, you still wish that you could love them.
The emotional backstories are equally as compelling as the main story and I would love to have Ms. Cohoe do a continuing story on Will from the beginning of his life to after he escapes on the ship to Caen and beyond. I am hoping that the way the book ends that there is another story growing in Ms. Cohoe’s soul that feeds off her debut.
Ms. Cohoe is a gifted writer and I look forward to reading any other book that she cares to write and have published.
Thank you Netgalley, Samantha Cohoe and Publisher Wednesday Books for the opportunity to read A Golden Fury in lieu of my honest review.
The Philosopher’s Stone, that ruby red stone that has been filled with eternal life, power, ability to create gold and making one wealthy. This stone has been covered by numerous authors in numerous veins. This stone is full of mystical lore. Ms. Cohoe’s debut novel takes a deeper angle on the stone and the creation of it and the Curse that is said to be attached to the stone.
A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe is a wildly fast-moving, grippingly entertaining fantasy about the power and desire that the mystical Philosopher’s Stone can create in an Alchemist’s soul.
Theosebeia Hope is a gifted daughter of a gifted, sought after Alchemist mother living in Normandy France in the middle of 1792 during the French Revolution. Alchemy, according to the Oxford Language Dictionary is “the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir.” Thea’s story begins when her mother goes mad trying to make the Philosopher’s Stone. Thea leaves France to search out her never met father who teaches at Oxford. She meets Dominic, her father’s apprentice and the story goes on from there. Thea’s life is starting to blossom with love for her mother’s apprentice Will. Her world blows up when her mother goes mad. It becomes full of hate, struggle, magic, and learning to navigate the world on her own terms all the while trying to right so many wrongs that have happened since her mother’s attempt at making the Philosopher’s Stone. There are many boulders in her way, so she has to decide if certain boulders would be easier to move or to climb over.
A Golden Fury is a dark, Intriguing book that you want to read for the pure thrill and creepiness of it. It is a book that will drag you in, stir the blood in your veins, make you crazy, and then spit you out when you least expect it. It is wrapped up in a pretty bow at the end which feels right for so many odd unexplained reasons in this brilliant debuting novel.
Ms. Cohoe has written a smart, gutsy character in Theosebeia Hope. The supporting characters fit their roles perfectly and even though there are a few people that Thea encounters in her adventure of creating the Philosopher’s Stone that you are driven to hate, you still wish that you could love them.
The emotional backstories are equally as compelling as the main story and I would love to have Ms. Cohoe do a continuing story on Will from the beginning of his life to after he escapes on the ship to Caen and beyond. I am hoping that the way the book ends that there is another story growing in Ms. Cohoe’s soul that feeds off her debut.
Ms. Cohoe is a gifted writer and I look forward to reading any other book that she cares to write and have published.
Thank you Netgalley, Samantha Cohoe and Publisher Wednesday Books for the opportunity to read A Golden Fury in lieu of my honest review.