1.5 stars The pitch for this book is fabulous, and it's easy to see why it got the green light: a group of beautiful girls, loosely based on the Greek Furies, punishes teenagers for their indiscretions. Add to that an insanely gorgeous cover using a model with glorious red hair in a flowing dress, and most people are going to be irresistibly drawn to it. I know I was. Even now when I look at this beautiful girl on the cover, I want so badly to forgive her for her toxic contents. But I can't do i More...

Now that some reviews have been written, is anyone else feeling as though FURY may just turn out to be a complete disappointment? :/

It could have been good...

My neighbor saw me reading this, and then asked me what the book was about. So, I looked down and realized that I was halfway through it...and had no idea. And that just about sums up the entire experience.

I thought this was going to be a book about the Furies. Perhaps we would get to see things from their perspective? Maybe we would learn more about them? But no. It's a book about punishing naughty teenagers. Told from their perspective.

And why? Why were these two kid More...

Ok...I dont know where to begin. I have read the first 33 pages of this book and I felt like gagging. Correction: I was gagging! I don't know how the cover and genres were so deceiving! It looked good, the titles was awesome and the plot-let's not even go there!

The prologue was beautiful! I felt like I was on that bridge, but what did you do to your writing? It turned from suicide to karma? What the heck? What type of fury is that? I weas utterly deceived and I am angry for it! I didn't even fin More...

How stunning is that cover! Could that be Ty?

After seeing Elizabeth do a presentation about herself and Fury while I was visiting New York, I couldn't wait to read Fury. I was ready to be impressed. And overall, I was. I could definitely see the Elizabeth that I had the chance to listen to coming through in her writing, and it was fantastic!

I didn't really like any of the characters in this book... well that's not true I did really liked JD... but the other ones were so.... selfish and mean. BUT More...

In the midst of reading a demanding (yet awesome) book for my book group I received an ARC of Fury by Elizabeth Miles. It seemed the perfect book to read while wooing my other one... so yesterday on my day off I cracked it open... and read almost the entirety of the book in one setting. Yeah. It's the absolute right choice to have picked up to intersperse with another.

In Ascension Maine everyone is gearing up for the holiday. Em is sad that her best friend, Gabby, will be in Spain for Christmas More...

Like me, Hades has lost his cool with this book!



Crap.

Crap.

Damn!

I was once again hoodwinked by another book with a striking cover.
I know. I know.
I should have learned my lesson with Carrier of the Mark.
But let's face it: Fury's cover is really attractive.
On the cover, the girl with the flaming red hair had a sly smile on her face as if she knows a secret that I don't.
What can I say, cover got me curious.
It drew me to read this book.
I wanted to grab the book and devour its contents.
The cover was b More...

It's engrossing, fast paced and quite creepy at times, or maybe I just scare easy?

But there's a lot of "ehhh" instances also. Our protagonist Em for one constantly makes excuses for herself. Like when she doesn't really hold back or push her best friends boyfriend Zach away. Actually she's more than willing to have a nice little fling when her best friend has gone on holiday and tries to justify it over and over again by claiming to be in love.

Puh -lease. Give me a break. Cheating is something t More...

*Sigh* What can I even begin to say about this book? The cover looked so intriguing, I loved the faery-esque clothing and startling red hair that turned to flames....it looked so good.

And then I started reading the book. Totally did NOT live up to the cover's expectations. I didn't find the characters believable and I often wondered at their mental states. I didn't get why the Furies were in our world and got to decide who needed punishment and who didn't. I also Did Not Agree With Their Punishm More...

1.5 stars

I really thought I would love "Fury." I usually strongly dislike paranormal reads, but this sounded like Courtney Summers' "Some Girls Are" with a lovely nasty twist. Instead, it is a bland, irritating, anticlimatic mess.

MY REACTION TO EM:

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

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She cheats with her best friend's boyfriend. She constantly tries to use the Trueeeee Loveeeee excuse as a good reason why she should fuck around behind her best friend's back, but More...

Original review posted on The Book Smugglers HERE

REVIEW

First Impressions:

Ana: I approached Fury with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because I love Greek Mythology and I love the idea of the Furies as personifications of vengeance and one of my personal favourite stories of all time features the Furies: Neil Gaiman’s The Kindly Ones (Sandman Volume 9). Trepidation because I’ve read some really bad Greek retellings of late and have become wary of what seems to be the latest YA fad More...

Reviewed by Rabid Reads

This book is very misleading. The cover and synopsis make it out to be a Paranormal Young Adult novel but for me, the story came up short in the supernatural department. I’m not a fan of YA per-se but when paired with an otherworldly plotline and/or characters I quite enjoy them. Fury would have been the ideal read had I been looking for a high school themed book. I was interested in the Greek mythology aspect, and that was severely lacking.

Two characters commit acts that More...

I am lost for words with Fury… and not in a good way.

For starters, I find the synopsis and the book cover deceiving. When I read the synopsis I thought I was going to read from the Furies’ perspective and that this would focus on what they do. Instead, I ended up with alternating POVs of Em and Chase, whom I found as not very likeable characters.

To make matters worse, you only get to see the Furies every now and then; the most you’d see of them would be on the last few chapters of the book.

I w More...

Lang und breit
Was fang ich bloß mit diesem Buch an? Ich bin mir nämlich nicht sicher, ob die ganzen Kritikpunkte, die ich gleich auffahren werde, nicht vielleicht von der Autorin gewollt waren, ob das ihr gewählter Stil war, um die Geschichte zu erzählen... aber selbst wenn dem so ist, muss mir das ja nicht gefallen.

Erst mal zum Guten: Worum es in dem Buch geht, darum macht schon der Titel kein großes Geheimnis. Fury, das sind zu Deutsch die Furien, griechische Rachegöttinnen. Dem Leser bleibt s More...

My thoughts on Fury:


It sucked. It was boring. Em was an asshole. All she did was fucking whine about how terrible her life was after she hooked up with her best friends boyfriend


Chase was a sad, sad morsel of a human being. But I liked the ending, that's why I gave it an extra star, and that's why I'm going to buy the next two (And return them the next day : 3 )
Bought it yesterday. Read it yesterday. Returning it today. More...

I’m pretty sure that the Furies (not to be confused with furries, gross), mythical women-spirits who enact karmic justice, are near the top of my list of things that are bad ass. I read Fury by Elizabeth Miles as a horror story – subsequently I enjoyed this debut novel VERY much.

Read the rest of my review here

Fury is the story of several teenagers and the tangled web they weave of their lives. At its core is revenge, karma, justice, relationships, and a dash of Greek myth. The plot is driven by an overwhelming sense of anticipation; you know something strange is going to happen, something bad, but you don’t know when. This anxiety pushes the reader forward propelling them through the plot. I enjoyed reading about Chase, Sasha, Em, JD, Zach, and Gabby despite my heart palpitations.

The end brings even More...

SPOILER ALERT

After reading three hundred pages of agony inducing melodrama, I found myself repeatedly asking, “But why?” Three hundred pages of a mundane story should have provided sufficient, satisfying answers for my question and then some, but it seems as though the author was preoccupied with the promise of a trilogy. Regardless of my theorising, the fact of the matter remains that there were some overarching questions left unanswered (which is really quite unacceptable), and thus led me to More...

man, the first half of this book was a little hard to get through, but the action in the second part made up for it.

still, i was expecting a bit more.

1.5/5 - Seriously I need a half star!

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 heroin More...

I really enjoyed this book! I am really looking forward to reading the next in the series when it becomes available. What I liked about it was that the characters are very real. They seem like real teenagers who make mistakes and try to deal with the consequences. So often YA characters are caricatures of real teenagers. But I found these characters really believable. The book alternates between two narrators, Em and Chase. Each are dealing with their own problems. Em is in love with her best fr More...

Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies.
How many of you believe in Karma?
How many of you believe that people must atone for their sins?
I believe in As you sow, so shall you reap. But then what about An eye for an eye makes the world go blind?
The Furies are vengeful and shall not let an More...

Although Fury, by Elizabeth Miles didn’t grab me right away, it was definitely worth the read. The book follows two characters, Emily and Chase, two students at Ascension High who couldn’t have different lives. However, they both commit wrongs and three mysterious girls appear in their small Maine town to hold them accountable.
The last 200 pages of this book fly by so fast! I read them all in one sitting, and am now breathless for more from Miles. The pace of Fury starts off slowly, and most o More...

Gosh, this book sounded hecka awesome. I love retellings and especially if this one is about a Greek mythological deity! Awesome, no? Hah. I was so misled. It’s not, not, not.

First of all, both of the two main characters are jerkbags! Emily is a bitch who totally has no qualms about hooking up with her best friend’s boyfriend behind her back when she was away on a trip. Even if he was interested in her, there are some rules here! And obviously not trying to get with your friend’s boyfriend is on More...

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About twenty years ago my husband and I belonged to a Western Tradition Buddhist group. The subject of Karma came up a lot and like most concepts in Buddhist teachings, it was both complex and simple. I came to understand it a not so much of an eye for an eye or life for a life as the creation of our own existence and the influence our own attitudes and behavior have on that future. A great guy, and sadly, late friendwas quoted at his memo More...

As promised, FURY is a story about selfishness and consequence. We all knew kids in high school like that. Some adults are still like that. Elizabeth Miles really captured the essence of teenage drama in FURY. The only difference is that at my high school, no one was followed around by three girls intent on revenge...that I know of, anyway.

It has taken me far too long to write this review. While I found the book entertaining, it just didn't do 'it' for me. The drama factor seemed to drag, and it More...

One of the many reasons I read a great deal of YA Fiction is that it is easy to squeeze in lighter reading when family life is busy. I've been on a paranormal YA Fiction bender lately, and this is the first book in the Fury Trilogy by Elizabeth Miles. I didn't like this book at all until I was about half way into it. The cast of characters are mostly mean, stuck-up high school kids with little or no redeeming qualities. When one of them is killed, the protagonist Emily wises up and then the stor More...

Before you zone in on all the negative reviews, let me just inform you that Fury is the first novel ever written by this author. Having started dozens of books that fail to make it past the fifth page, I feel that some might be reviewing her book a little harshly. But, that's just my opinion - to each his own.
Due to my quasi-Cypriot heritage and love of mythology, I liked the concept of using Furies - before I saw this in the bookstore, I had a few ideas for using the Furies in a book of my own More...

Leggi la recensione su Lovely Dreams!

La trama di questo romanzo mi aveva intrigata oltre ogni dire. Prometteva una storia originale, uno YA fuori dai soliti schemi. Ed in effetti è stato così. La storia è avvincente e mi sono ritrovata a divorarlo per scoprire come sarebbe andata a finire.

Cosa è andato storto? Pessimi personaggi che recitano in una bella storia.

Chase è quello che in gergo si chiama pidocchio risalito – o in risalita, nello specifico. Di umili origini, cerca di «sfondare» nell'Ol More...