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A review by jang
House of Furies by Madeleine Roux
5.0
This book is Miss Peregrine meets The Bone Season meets Lady Helen meets Outlander, and it worked! This woke me up from my half-year-long reading slump and I'm so thankful I came across this one because now, I'm back anticipating sequels that'll probably come out in a yr or three.
House of Furies is the first book from a planned series of Asylum author Madeleine Roux. I haven't read the Asylum series so I was never acquainted with Roux's writing style nor her favored themes in books. Apparently she's into the gothic, slightly morbid, weird, paranormal series.
Judging from this book, MR is very good at world-building and writing characters because all those aspects were impeccably delivered in this book.
I loved her characters. The heroine Louisa Ditton and "the devil" Mr. Morningside. Poppy and her dog (foreshadowing: would probably turn into that werewolf creature?), Chijioke and even the uptight crone Mrs. Haylam. Madeleine Roux has a knack for writing complex characters that are easy to connect with.
I especially loved Mr. Morningside and it pains me that he's only rarely present in the book. He's the devil that's far from "evil." He makes inhuman things only to people who have sinned greatly. He lures them into his own house of peculiars but only to give justice to the people they have wronged outside of Coldthistle House. This isn't me becoming a Mr.-Morningside-Apologist, fyi. What he's doing--being a punisher, for one--is sort of sick but y'know that millennial saying that "everybody loves a bad guy"? Yep, that goes for me as well. I love him. IDEC.
I see a potential love triangle between Louisa, Mr. Morningside and Rawleigh Brimble. I see this book being adapted into a movie or a series. I see great potential for the sequels and my mind is so ready for it.
House of Furies is the first book from a planned series of Asylum author Madeleine Roux. I haven't read the Asylum series so I was never acquainted with Roux's writing style nor her favored themes in books. Apparently she's into the gothic, slightly morbid, weird, paranormal series.
Judging from this book, MR is very good at world-building and writing characters because all those aspects were impeccably delivered in this book.
I loved her characters. The heroine Louisa Ditton and "the devil" Mr. Morningside. Poppy and her dog (foreshadowing: would probably turn into that werewolf creature?), Chijioke and even the uptight crone Mrs. Haylam. Madeleine Roux has a knack for writing complex characters that are easy to connect with.
I especially loved Mr. Morningside and it pains me that he's only rarely present in the book. He's the devil that's far from "evil." He makes inhuman things only to people who have sinned greatly. He lures them into his own house of peculiars but only to give justice to the people they have wronged outside of Coldthistle House. This isn't me becoming a Mr.-Morningside-Apologist, fyi. What he's doing--being a punisher, for one--is sort of sick but y'know that millennial saying that "everybody loves a bad guy"? Yep, that goes for me as well. I love him. IDEC.
I see a potential love triangle between Louisa, Mr. Morningside and Rawleigh Brimble. I see this book being adapted into a movie or a series. I see great potential for the sequels and my mind is so ready for it.