Author: Claire Legrand
Publication Date: May 22nd 2018
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Part of a Series?: Yes, Book 1 on 3 of the Empirium Trilogy
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Blurb Description: 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.
Furyborn was
surrounded by ALL THE HYPE for MONTHS before it released. It was EVERYWHERE,
and as a huge YA Fan, I knew I would have to read it, sooner rather than later.
Furyborn was essentially:
1)
A magnificent tale told across two millennia by
two young girls
2)
One lives in a land surrounded my magic, and the
other in a land where magic is a fairy-tale of the past and all they know is
the Empire that conquers all
3)
One of these girls is an assassin and one is a
temple acolyte
4)
A story surrounding a prophecy about these two
girls – a Sun Queen and a Blood Queen, one with the power to destroy the world
and the other with the power to save it.
5)
It has kingdoms, swoony princes, power, magical
trials, angels and it’s just SUCH A GORGEOUS BOOK TO OWN!
MY THOUGHTS:
1)
I expected a LOT going into this book. A
majority of the early reviews I read RAVED about this book, and I was very
hopeful that I had found the NEXT THING I WOULD FALL HEAD OVER HEELS IN LOVE
WITH. Now, as I sit at the end of Furyborn,
I find that while I ENJOYED it, for the most part, this story was
predictable and kind of MEH, except for ONE TWIST on page 343.
2) If I had to choose between Rielle and
Eliana, I would definitely choose Rielle’s story. They were both a little
predictable, but I definitely loved Rielle’s dark and twisty viewpoint better!
3)
Furyborn was
QUITE a long book. I feel like a lot of it was running around, especially in
Eliana’s story when she kept travelling from place X to place Y, and not much
happened that we DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW?
4)
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED Audric and Rielle together,
with their forbidden, best-friend romance.
Honestly, I liked Furyborn,
but I didn’t fall in love with it. There was a lot of hype around it, and
it just didn’t live up to all that hype for me. A 3.5 star novel, but I
hope I will continue on with the series!
Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn't stop thinking about the stories in her head. A native Texan, she is now a writer and librarian living in central New Jersey.Her first novel is THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012. She is also the author of THE YEAR OF SHADOWS, a ghost story for middle grade readers, WINTERSPELL, a young adult re-telling of The Nutcracker, and SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS, a middle grade story about mental illness, family secrets, and the power of storytelling. SOME KIND OF HAPPINESS is a 2017 Edgar Award nominee and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016. Her latest novel, FOXHEART, is a fast-paced fantasy-adventure and a 2016 Junior Library Guild selection. She is also one of the four authors behind THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, an anthology of dark middle grade short fiction that was a Junior Library Guild selection, a Bank Street Best Book, and among the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2014.
Coming up for Claire is FURYBORN, the first book in the Empirium trilogy, due out May 22, 2018, followed by SAWKILL GIRLS in fall 2018, and THORNLIGHT, a companion novel to FOXHEART, coming in winter 2019.
Visit Claire at claire-legrand.com and at enterthecabinet.com.
Have you read Furyborn or any other of Claire Legrand's books? What did you think of them?
What are some of your FAVOURITE YA Fantasy novels that you've read recently?
I'm always looking for more recommendations!
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