I didn’t care about any of the couples and I think it’s in part because we rushed right into the sex bits. Kind of pairing with the less sex positivity thing, I wanted more development from the relationships in the book. I never connected with the characters, I just didn’t care about them and when one of them died, I was relieved that that was one less person to remember. Except for the murder-y one (Eliana), she’d be a black spot in the middle of a beige wasteland. If these characters were a color, they’d be beige. Especially with a book that’s supposed to be plot driven.īut oh my gosh, the sheer number of masturbatory scenes and sex scenes – often it felt like they were just thrown in there for sheer shock value. It has to make sense, with the characters and in the context of the story. So, I’m all for letting your freak flab fly but I’m very particular about it for a book. Sure they were exciting, but often they didn’t draw me into the plot. In the 400+ pages, I strongly feel like over half was just action scenes – which became hugely distracting. Trial after trial. And while those were interesting, it didn’t really draw me into the plot of the book. This book was like fight scene after fight scene. It just felt like this book was trying to encompass so much time and space when really, it should’ve been a more focused.

I had no idea that the two storylines were separated by time until about 2/3 through the book.Īnd even when I finally figured out they were two different timelines, I didn’t realize that it was a thousand years apart until I began writing this review. Maybe it was because I was listening via audiobook, but I was really confused by the storylines and couldn’t figure out how to piece them together.

I was just…kinda expecting less and more. “We fight for everyone else’s.”įrom a young age, she has been taught to suppress her emotions towards killing but once she joins a rebel captain and finds herself in a whole different situation. “People like us don’t fight for our own hope,” he said quietly. Meanwhile, over a thousand years later, Eliana Ferracora knew of Rielle but only as a fairytale.Įliana is a bounty hunter but she’s truly more of a butcher, trained by her mother. She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows. Now that the kingdom knows, Rielle must undergo seven trials to prove that she’s a queen of light and if she fails – well…let’s just say that the kingdom has no use for a blood queen. She’s hidden it her entire life but when one of her friends become threatened, she exposes her powers in front of the king. Rielle Dardenne is one of the legendary queens – either the queen of light or of blood. Either a queen of goodness, or evil.

Furyborn