The Fury

I really wanted to like this, since I did actually enjoy this author's other two books, but this really didn't work for me. I was interested in the plot... an actress invites her friends to a “haunted” island and someone ends up murdered, but I really did not like the way it was written. Sometimes I do enjoy the “hello, I'm your narrator and I know everything that happens in this book but I'm going to tell you details along the way” but I don't think this author was the right person to write this particular story for me. I did not enjoy the narrator's voice and none of the characters really stood out to me as anyone. The thing I liked the most was the setting, but I do wish that this “haunted Greek island” was actually haunted or had some sort of supernatural thing about it that made it such a dangerous place to be. This book was less than 300 pages and only 7 hours on audio but it felt like I had sat down to read a 1000 page high fantasy novel with how slowly I moved through it. Normally something like this would only take me a few hours but this book took me DAYS to finish. My favorite thing about this novel was the multiple ties to acting. There was an abandoned ancient theater on this island, which was super super cool, the actress that planned this whole trip, and the fact that the book itself was written in acts like a play. I'm not sure if I'll ever give this author another chance after this unless he writes something that the general public is RAVING over.






Thank you to Celadon Books and NetGalley for providing me with an eBook copy to review