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A review by dllh
Furyborn by Claire Legrand
3.0
I haven't read a whole lot of fantasy, but this one felt early on like it was covering new ground. It had a strangeness to it that made me think of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun series, though it wasn't so like that series in the end. Still, it seemed like something new, like something a little different from the same old sort of story with a slightly different culture and world building wrapped around it.
I liked the book less as I got further into it. Much of the action of the book gets a little tedious, and I grew weary of some of the set pieces that seemed basically made for a movie version of the book. I read this aloud to my family and found that I needed to heavily edit or skip some bits that were a lot more sexually explicit (sometimes sort of embarrassingly, almost comically so) than what I'm especially keen to read aloud to a 14- and an 11-year-old. I could've done without those sort of would-be steamy parts for my own sake too (not that I'm a prude -- it just didn't do it for me). On the whole, I liked the book. I give it three stars, though it may be closer to a 3.5 (but not close enough to make me want to round it up to a 4).
I liked the book less as I got further into it. Much of the action of the book gets a little tedious, and I grew weary of some of the set pieces that seemed basically made for a movie version of the book. I read this aloud to my family and found that I needed to heavily edit or skip some bits that were a lot more sexually explicit (sometimes sort of embarrassingly, almost comically so) than what I'm especially keen to read aloud to a 14- and an 11-year-old. I could've done without those sort of would-be steamy parts for my own sake too (not that I'm a prude -- it just didn't do it for me). On the whole, I liked the book. I give it three stars, though it may be closer to a 3.5 (but not close enough to make me want to round it up to a 4).