Item: Furyborn
Rating: 4.00
Author: liz089

by Claire Legrand

The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world…or doom it.

When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed…unless the trials kill her first.

A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable–until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.

As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world—and of each other.

I received this ARC from my Fairyloot supscription, super awesome !!

Lately there have been a lot of new YA Fantasy novels that are just not good enough. Not original enough, too predictable, too boring...

But this one, this one is better.

Yes it is not perfect, there are some things that are still predictable and over-used. But I really enjoyed this one. It felt very refreshing and new, I really appreciated the world-building, it was very interesting how it all came together and I feel it has a good plot, a strong plot for the beginning of a trilogy.

I also liked both main characters, and found it very interesting to read both their stories, even though they do not happen at the same time, and we already know how Rielle's story will end. Normally one is much more interesting then the other (at least in my experience), but this time I enjoyed them equally and had no preference. Maybe... Eliana a little bit more because we do not know what will happen to her ? But I found it also very interesting to read about Rielle and am curious what else will happen to her, to make her turn on her own people.

This is most definitely a series I will continue and am very curious how it will progress.. Downside ?? I have to wait very long for the next one haha XD

Furyborn (Empirium Trilogy, #1)

by Claire Legrand

Reviewed by liz089 on Mar 10, 2018

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