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A review by aleciatalbot
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
5.0
“Good/bad, innocent/guilty. That’s fine in fiction; real life is not so clear-cut.”
What to expect:
-unreliable narrator
-jumping timelines
-drama/play references
-chaotic friend group
This book was a wild ride. I love both of Michaelides’s other novels, and it’s safe to say I love this one too. It felt like a fresh take on the classic “murder mystery” with an unreliable narrator taking you through various twists and turns. I really enjoyed the narrator breaking the fourth wall and talking to the reader and that it was broken into different “acts.”
I didn’t care for the characters in the story as much as his other books, and the beginning felt a little bit slow, but I attribute a lot of that to introductions and setting up the story. The second half of the book was very quick and chaotic, and I found myself very invested, mostly due to the well-executed set up in the first half.
What to expect:
-unreliable narrator
-jumping timelines
-drama/play references
-chaotic friend group
This book was a wild ride. I love both of Michaelides’s other novels, and it’s safe to say I love this one too. It felt like a fresh take on the classic “murder mystery” with an unreliable narrator taking you through various twists and turns. I really enjoyed the narrator breaking the fourth wall and talking to the reader and that it was broken into different “acts.”
I didn’t care for the characters in the story as much as his other books, and the beginning felt a little bit slow, but I attribute a lot of that to introductions and setting up the story. The second half of the book was very quick and chaotic, and I found myself very invested, mostly due to the well-executed set up in the first half.