Tag: Alex Michaelides

My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪
Genre: Thriller

The Fury is narrated by Elliot Chase who is very pointedly telling us a story. It’s the story of his time on an island with movie star Lana Farrar, her husband and son and her friend Kate, and an ensuing murder. The island is sooo moody and atmospheric and as a lover of a locked-room mystery I was hooked

I loved the way this was narrated. You are aware from the beginning that you’re getting Elliot’s perspective and it’s filtered through his relationships with the other characters. I won’t say much more about that, but it added a lot to the layers of the story as the tale went on.

I’ve seen a lot of reviews talking about how slow this book is and, as a thriller, it is on the slow side, but I didn’t have a problem with that. We get a lot of backstory on the characters, which isn’t always the case with this kind of mystery and I really appreciated getting to know the nuances of their lives. With so few characters in the book, there’s plenty of time to delve into each of their pasts.

This is a twisty thriller with a lot of drama (in the sense that they’re all actors, so they’re dramatic) and I was intrigued from start to finish.

*Thank you to Celadon for a free copy of this book in exchange for my opinion.
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