Article contributed by Holly Angus
Assassins, ghouls, magical trials, and suspense all packed in to one book. If you want a book that will have you cringing and clinging to the pages all at the same time, Furyborn is for you. Time hopping, thousands of years apart, Claire Legrand connects her two leading heroines through an ancient prophecy, the Sun and Blood Queens. Two Queens with inexplicable power, fighting in a cosmic war between humans and angels, that will determine the remains of the world in which they reside.
Rielle Dardenne has always lived amongst royalty. Her childhood best friend is now the crown Prince and her father, the right-hand man to the king, Rielle has always been sheltered from the looming dangers beyond the castle walls. The threat of the rebellion, the Red Crown and the dreadful powers of the infamous Emperor. When Rielle saves Prince Audric, she exposes her suppressed magical powers and she is put on trial by her own extended family. Forced into magical trials, built for an inevitable death, Rielle must prevail throughout all tests and claim her rightful title as the Sun Queen.
However, Rielle’s story is not as one-dimensional as it seems. In love with Audric who is betrothed to her childhood best friend, Rielle is thrown into a world of danger, love and consequences. With that not being enough for poor Rielle, she also has a voice in her head, a man speaking to her, coaxing her through her life-threatening trials. She and the reader question together, who is this man and what does he want?
During the time of Eliana Ferracora, Queen Rielle is only a mere fairy-tale repeated to her by her naive brother, Remy. Eliana is a ruthless assassin, notorious across the lands and works for the Invictus, a powerful company of killers controlled by the Emperor where she is forced to carry out the most brutal and bloody jobs. When Eliana’s mother disappears in the middle of the night, she and the adorable Remy, set out on a journey to discover why women are being stolen away in the night without a trace. Is her mother connected to the other disappearances across the land? Can Eliana locate her? Or did she want to disappear and leave her children behind?
To find her mother, Eliana betrays the Invictus and joins a rebel gang on a mission to expose the evil powers that lurk within the empire, and the kingdoms it controls. The darkness she believed to have witnessed when working with the Invicuts is nowhere near what is about to unfold.
The world building in this novel is unlike any mainstream fantasy novel. The world is unique, well-orchestrated and multi-dimensional, engaging and teaching the reader as the story progresses. Further explanation of the world and its workings are hopefully coming in the second instalment of the series, which is already in the works!
Furyborn is a novel that has created a lot of buzz in the book community recently, quickly finding itself on the most-anticipated reads of many book lovers around the world. The Nerd Daily is here to conclude that Legrand’s latest novel is worth all of the hype. Legrand’s writing is lyrical and leaves the reader constantly lusting for more. Her world is unique and unparalleled; the characters are kick ass heroines that are constantly forced to find the balance between saving themselves or the ones they love.
Furyborn is a novel for every YA fantasy lover that is tired of the same tropes being repeated throughout every series within the genre. Legrand has created a breath of fresh air in the fantasy world, allowing her new YA novel to transcend genres and create a delightful read for all ages.
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SYNOPSIS | GOODREADS
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.
