The world is inventive and the switch between Rielle and Eliana’s POV kept me on my toes. I was alternatively Rielle fighting to be accepted and loved for the extraordinary being she was or Eliana “The Dread of Orline” trying to forget what she had done to survive and protect her family. For hours, he had crouched there, knees drawn to chest, head bowed.įor hours, the queen’s rooms had shuddered in tandem with her screams.įirst lines of Furyborn and the beginning of my love affair with this epic story.įrom the first sentences I was immersed in this fantasy universe. Simon had been hiding in her closet, fingers jammed into his ears to block out the noise. “The queen stopped screaming just after midnight. I got this ARC of Furyborn and I could not have been happier! It deserves 6 stars and I just wanted to forget the world, my duties and read it! 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.Īs 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. Now, she believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city.

When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive.

If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.Ī thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her 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. 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 stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.

Furyborn book review