First off, the worldbuilding is fantastic, and the whole concept is really very original. The idea of it was what made me fascinated and want to read it in the first place. Blood Queen and Sun Queen, angels and saints, magic, and all that jazz. It is a well-constructed world. The characters not so much.
I didn't like Elyana. I have no patience for her. I think what frustrated me was that we are told she killed people and did the terrible things she did to survive but I wasn't really shown that. It made it hard for me to believe. Also if she had that kind of talent why not use it to fight the empire in a gorilla warfare kind of way? It wasn't clear to me why she made the choices she did. We were also told that at heart she is a good person but all I ever saw was a selfish person who was willing to sacrifice the lives of hundreds of people who were fighting for a cause of justice just because she couldn't deal with facing the suffering of people and selfishly wanted to just do her own thing. I just have not patience for that kind of character.
As for Rielle, I actually related to her way more. She seemed like a much more complicated and interesting character and I actually felt like her actions told me more about her as a person. Where we are told things with Elyana but never shown all of Rielle is shown through her actions. I want to like this book so bad but I disliked one of the main characters so much that it makes it hard for me to want to continue reading.
Another thing that irritated me is Elyana not believing the "big reveal" when it is revealed to her. Honestly, I knew it by chapter 3. So for a character to not believe and willfully not is just irritating as a reader. It is so obvious to literally the reader and every other character but Elyana didn't want the believe it and flat out refused.
Have you read Furyborn? What did you think?
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