The Fury

As someone who absolutely adored The Silent Patient, The Fury was a bit of a letdown. The plot was interesting but the pacing was slow for me. The first half dragged on as we followed a group of characters invited to a private Greek island, making it clear they all hated each other, but still off they went. It was hard to get through.When the drama finally kicked off, things got so chaotic that it felt unrealistic. The twists took a turn for the worse, especially the part where it is revealed what the group has done—it just didn’t make sense.I struggled to connect with any of the characters, and I found myself not really liking any of them, especially the narrator. There could have been a way to hold the interest of a thrill-seeker like me, but the narration killed it. He played with words that were somewhat unnecessary. Despite the promising premise, The Fury didn’t live up to the high standards set by The Silent Patient, at least to me personally.

it's a really good book, much better than The Maidens but much less investigative, much more psychological.Silent Patient has a much better twist, much more WTF JUST HAPPENED? HAHAHAThis one has more plots but I think that having read the other books of the author the plots are not so shocking.

The Silent Patient was one of the first books in a long time that had me gobsmacked at the ending. I loved being shocked-it was an amazing read and is still at the top of my list of best books I’ve read in the last two years. So, it was with excitement and a little anxiety that I looked forward to The Fury’s release date. The Fury is a master class in storytelling, but differently than you likely expect. The only thing that bummed me out a bit was I figured out the ending, (and it’s not a straight forward one), about 3/4 into the book. I will say however my theory did evolve and change slightly as I kept reading, but in the end it held. So, while I didn’t get the “I didn’t see that coming!” moment, the storytelling, the way AM wove each character’s back stories together, while still leaving each character wonderfully three dimensional, mixing in golden age movie references intermingled withscenes set on stage and back stage during a live stage production rehearsal was brilliant. Maybe it’s the theatre geek in me or more likely Alex Michaelide’s is an astonishingly good writer who pulls from all areas of his experience and crafts something different and compelling each time he sets pen to paper, (or fingers on laptop, but pen to paper is such beautiful imagery especially in this case). And speaking of imagery, the book puts you there, the characters, the setting-it’s all brought to life stunningly. Fovero!

A generous 4 stars.A slow start and a story filled with beautiful descriptions of places and food that made me wish to take the next flight back to Greece.I simultaneously listened to the audiobook. The audiobook had more words than my paperback edition.Here is a simple example:Book: “A small figure was…”Audiobook: “ There was a small figure…”Book: “That the guns…”Audiobook: “ The fact that the guns…”Book: some times a pronoun was usedAudiobook: that pronoun was substituted by the character’s name.Anyways, those differences were not a big deal but I thought I should mention.I thought that this book was much better than “The Maidens”, but not as thrilling as “The Silent Patient”.I enjoyed the writing and specially the narrative, but the development of the storyline was very slow.Regardless, I did find it very atmospheric, hence my ratings.The chapters are very short and well constructed, but no characters are likeable and unfortunately I did not connect with a single one.As for the narrator, there was no way that he could have known everything.Paperback (Celadon Books): 299 pages (or 320 pages if cover to cover - so many empty pages and spaces - I felt cheated). It’s divided into 5 acts, and most of the chapters are very short.ebook (Kobo): 217 pages (default), 67k wordsaudiobook narrated by Alex Jennings: 8.1 hours (normal speed)

Till the end we don' t know who is going to be killed, how she/he is going to be killed, why is she/he is going to be killed.It' s surprizing.I like this author' s books.

Love this author!