Title: Fury
Author: Elizabeth Miles
Series: (The Fury Trilogy #1)
Published: August 30th 2011 by Simon Pulse
 

Now I understand why most reviewers gave it average to low ratings. I think I also share the same negative sentiments. There are things in this book that are really wrong for me. Take the book cover as an example, what did you see? A feisty looking girl with fiery red hair will give you an impression that you’re in for a kick-ass story with equally (based on the cover) kick-ass heroine. Well, I’m dead wrong. For one, the female lead, Em is the dullest heroine I have the displeasure of reading. No seriously, she was. She’s the complete opposite of the girl in the cover. She’s utterly weak; I don’t think she carried the novel well, even if it was in third POV. I still don’t even know why she’s the main lead. She fell in love with her bestfriend’s boyfriend, screwing with him while her friend was gone. While I know why she did it and why ‘that’ is vital to the plot, I still didn’t like how it was presented. Well, that’s just my opinion.

Second, the concept of furies, I’m no stranger to furies, while I may not be as knowledgeable as others when it comes to Greek mythology, but thanks to reading (and bit of researching—er, googling) I encounter enough to know the basic. I think it worked in Starcrossed and Percy Jackson, here… it wouldn’t sink in.

In this book they are sort of Karma, basically they serve the same purpose as they are in greek mythology, goddesses of revenge who punish people who commit crimes. I get that, what I didn’t get is from millions of people who probably did worst (or eviler for that matter) than the characters did in this book, why them? What made them special that warrants their attention and time? That’s my question. Not that I’m saying people shouldn’t be punish just because the mistakes/crimes they did are measly compare to others. Crime is still a crime, no matter how small it is. But this is a book, there’s got to be a reason why they specifically targeted by the furies. It didn’t bother to elaborate so I feel kinda lost.

In fact, if Em didn’t have an almost car accident and Drea (I think) didn’t come in the picture, she probably didn’t know what trouble she’s in for. But even that, I found it out of the blue. The information sort of popped in. Like ‘hey you’re in trouble and there’s people from greek mythology who is hunting you.’ See? Of course I just exaggerated a bit but that’s how I felt. Information shouldn’t be present this way, it was really anticlimactic. So for me, it was kind of mind-numbing. No offense really, but I’m just being honest.

The characters? Well, they are soooo flat, soooo boring I don’t even know what to say. Do I need to describe them when they hardly left an impression? Probably not. I only remember what mistakes they did but even that are still not enough to draw a impression for their characters (you know, clever ones). They are bunch of nothingness I want to forget.

And for the romance… what romance? There is a romance? You mean JD and Em? Oh my, that’s not a romance. So with that peeps, I’m keeping my mouth shut. Besides, I don’t want to drag this review any further.

So I’ll end this one with a question for myself. Will I read the sequel? Based on the ending, maybe not. I didn’t enjoy this book so why bother torturing myself by reading the sequel. *shrugs*