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She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows. Now that the kingdom knows, Rielle must undergo seven trials to prove that she’s a queen of light and if she fails – well…let’s just say that the kingdom has no use for a blood queen. She’s hidden it her entire life but when one of her friends become threatened, she exposes her powers in front of the king. Recommended for fans of the genre, who may appreciate some of the twists on usual tropes.Rielle Dardenne is one of the legendary queens – either the queen of light or of blood. Either a queen of goodness, or evil. I had this wishful thinking theory that the 1,000 years between Rielle and Eliana was actually propaganda by the Empire and Rielle’s storyline only happened like 20 years earlier, and Rielle is actually still around….but no, that’s not the case.I like the exploration of fate and identity – can we choose to be who we want? There’s also a role reversal that I feel I haven’t seen often. Another twist on a trope is that Eliana works and fights for the oppressive Empire, rather than the rebels. What sets this book apart from others in the same genre is the older age of the protagonists and the embracing of female desire.This also made skimming through Rielle’s trials quick. Usually alternating perspectives between chapters doesn’t work for me, but I found that the chapters in Furyborn are short enough that I didn’t get bored or forget what was happening in the other timeline.I liked the prologue better than most of the rest of the book. It also features the most dramatic scene of the book.

The prologue features a different tone than the rest of the book, however.

I knew that Furyborn is YA, but it’s definitely on the older end of the YA spectrum and the style is typical YA fantasy – nothing particularly fancy. Unfortunately for me, this book is totally different from that.

I was willing to give it a shot because I adored the fantasy-esque scenes Legrand wrote in Some Kind of Happiness.

I would have skipped this book if it was by anyone else.

(At least I feel like it’s been a long time since I read a book that was neither here nor there for me!)

Hence the brief thoughts post instead of a full review that I struggled to write for a week and then gave up on. I need to create a rule where I don’t request young adult fantasy – I have high hopes of enjoying it, but I rarely do and then I don’t have much to say in a review that I don’t feel has been better articulated elsewhere. I think everyone in the book blogging world who would want to read this already has.