A review by bingley
Fury's Kiss by Karen Chance

Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.

(240610)
Chapters 1 - 5 were just utterly confusing, like WTF IS GOING ON EXACTLY.
I didn't get a grip on the story till chapter 8 or so, and even then I was hanging on by my fingertips till chapter 14, when I had to call it.

• EXPOSITION: 
  • It start with her fighting and she's lost her memories, then she wakes up, and with NO EXPLANATION--- she has her memories. Are we all just pretending the first 5 chapters didn't exist?!?!? How did she get her memories back and why was there no acknowledgement of it??
• TIME: 
  • One minute she's fighting, the next minute 2 weeks have passed, then a few lines later, it flashes back to a memory, BUT THEN she wakes up from a coma. Like you're giving me whiplash from all this jumping around and inconsistencies! HELP ME HELP YOU!
• NARRATION AND WRITING STYLE: 
  • It reads like one extensively exhaustive run-on sentence. Like stream of consciousness. Case in point:
    • "I didn't have time to brace myself, didn't have time to do anything before he hit me, hard enough to knock out of my lungs and send both of us careening through the air and past the swinging door and down a short hall and through another door that Ray ahd thankfully left open because otherwise I'd have been a small smear on the wood. But he had and I wasn't and a second later the portal caught me, just a big gold swirl on a scuffed white wall that had never looked more welcoming. At least it did until I s;a,,ed into something halfway through."
  • THAT WHOLE PARAGRAPH IS 3 SENTENCES! The writing style is like a rollercoaster, push and pull whiplash. The narration also pushes and pulls you through the plot, playing with pacing like a kid in a candy store.