𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐲
𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫: 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬
𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬
𝐏𝐮𝐛 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

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Thank you Celadon Books and Macmillan Audio for my #gifted copies of The Fury!

Wow! The Fury was such a captivating whodunnit thriller! Reading and listening to this book literally felt like talking to an old friend. The format of the Fury was so unique and engaging and I just LOVED it! I could not put this one down because I just wanted answers and couldn’t turn the pages quickly enough. I found this book to be perfectly paced and so well done!

One thing I loved about this book was the easter eggs that were included from the authors other books. This book is 100% a standalone, but it was fun to see the easter eggs included!

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🌀Set On a Greek Island
🌀Psychological Thriller
🌀Twists & Turns
🌀Short Chapters
🌀Murder Mystery
🌀Fast Paced
🌀Unreliable Narrator

I alternated between the audiobook and the physical book and felt as though the narrator, Alex Jennings, was absolutely perfect for this role. I found that he brought the story to life and found him to be perfect for the voice of Elliott. I highly recommend either format of this book!

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3 stars
Well that was a lot to unpack... I can tell there was a LOT of thought that went into writing this book as it was incredibly complex and multifaceted. My biggest complaint is that because of its complexity, I found it hard to follow. I constantly didn't know if whatever was happening was real, if that person was truly dead or alive, or if we had gone back/forward in time. I think there was a great premise here & I think it had the potential to be a great story, but I found it too jumbled/difficult to keep up with. I felt like I needed to make notes in order to remember everything & pleasure reading shouldn't be like that. Even with thrillers, I prefer them to be easy to follow & not need to concentrate super hard in order to understand what is happening. With this book, I had to constantly remind myself what had just happened & I found the reading/comprehension of it to be stressful. I also wanted to DNF up until about 30% in, so it was very much a slow burn for me. Loved the Easter eggs from Michaelides' other books, that was fun!
Overall, a story with potential, but quite confusing with so much going on!!
*Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for allowing me to give this book a read ahead of its January publication*

I received a complimentary copy of THE FURY by Alex Michaelides from Celadon Books. I also received an audiobook copy from Macmillan Audio!

THE FURY tells a story of love and murder. The narrator Elliot tells the story to the audience, speaking in a bit of a blend of first and second person. He admits he’s not entirely reliable and there are things he doesn’t want to tell the reader since he’s one of the actors in the play he is about to unfold.

Lana is an ex-movie star with a private Greek Island. She invites a group of her closest friends to the island. This is a regular occurance, but this time things are a bit different and the group is cut off by the weather and someone winds up dead. Elliot tells the tale, going back and forth in time to delve into each character’s motives and backstories, until the final culmination leaving someone dead.

Second person narratives aren’t always my favorite style, so I was a bit wary going into this book. I do find that audiobooks help quite a bit with this and the conversational narrative Elliot provides translated very well to the audiobook. The narrator was fantastic as well!

The overall pacing of this book is on the slow side. Elliot gives a lot of clues as to what is coming, taunting the reader into continuing the tale and I definitely wanted to keep reading for answers. You do, however, need to go into this one expecting a slow burn. The twists in the story were well laid out to keep me engaged. I did predict a few of them, but the author managed to surprise me a couple times as well.

I had a good time with this book and it was an easy one to binge read in a day.

I liked The Silent Patient and The Maidens was just ok for me, but -WOW- The Fury is EXCELLENT! A true pace-turner with a Sherlock Holmes/Agatha Christie feel. I loved the isolated island vibes and the playwright aspect that gives this a whole other mixed-media angle. I was both irritated by and invested in these selfish rich people and, though I don’t know that this is really a who-dun-it cause it all felt a little obvious, I was still completely hooked. Definitely a successful third book from Michaelides.

Sadly this highly anticipated book was not a winner for me. I really struggled to follow everything that was going on and lost interest about halfway through. The storyline felt repetitive, with a bunch of "just kidding!" tropes every several chapters. I'm still not totally sure I understand what ended up actually happening. Mediocre ending to 2023's year of books.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for my honest feedback of this title.

Lana is an ex-movie star and notoriously famous. Every year she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. But one year was not quite like the rest… there’s been a murder.

Alex Michaelides is back with another hit! This story is set up beautifully and the pacing is just right. Our narrator (unreliable?), lays it all out for us as we sit back and watch it masterfully unfold before our eyes. The Fury is immersive and gets your imagination juices flowing, while keeping you reading/listening, unable to stop. I was fortune to receive this book as an ALC and an ARC, and I hybrid read/listened, my favorite way to experience a book. I found both versions to be equally addictive and immersive. The audiobook narrator, Alex Jennings was phenomenal, keeping me attentive and invested. I will definitely keep my eyes peeled for more books read by this narrator. The Fury was delightful and I 100% plan on getting myself a finished copy.

Thank you so much NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Celadon Books for my advanced copies and the chance to review it honestly.

Happy reading!

Thank you so much !

I absolutely FLEW through this one! I did half on audio and half on the print copy and could not stop reading! The chapters are so short and bingeable!

I loved the writing style as it kept me on my toes the whole time!

I didn't see the ending coming a mile away and the more I think through the LAYERS AND LAYERS of the plot and twists, the more clever it becomes!

The audiobook's narration was also so well done and Alex Jennings was the perfect choice and exactly how Elliot Chase (the main character) would have sounded in my head.

I've read all three of Michaelides' thrillers now and this one is my favorite of the three! I just can't get over how clever it was!

This will be available for purchase on January 16th!

4.5 rounded up!

This was a fun audiobook that was easy to listen to.

The (unreliable) narrator, Elliot Chase…tells the story like you’re just sitting around casually chatting it up with someone.

He gives clues about who dies and who committed the murder throughout the book but you can’t really count on anything he says.

All of the characters were pretty awful, but I found myself intrigued by Elliot as the narrator. So I didn’t dislike him as much as the others.

It’s hard to rate this book because although the writing flowed well, the twists just kept coming and I was a bit over it towards the end but I also didn’t want to stop reading it. I just felt like it took forever to get from point A to point B. Definitely more of a slow burn until closer to the end.

I’m curious to see what others say about this one.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this fast paced murder mystery. With a close friend of the victim as the narrator, you have no idea who to believe as the facts are revealed. Kate and Lana are close friends who are both successful actresses. When Lana suspects Kate of sleeping with her husband, she invites them all to her secluded island to clear the air and get to the bottom of things. Twisty thriller that is not to be missed.

🧿 The Fury - Alex Michaelides

3 ⭐️ - Ah man, I wanted to love this one more than I did. I loved The Silent Patient and I thought The Maidens was good, not great so I wanted this one to really swing me one way or the other. Honestly, it just left me feeling meh about it. I’ve seen some mixed reviews so I wasn’t totally sure what to expect.

Lana Farrar is an ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the gloomy England weather and spend Easter on her private Greek island. Unfortunately this year, this close knit group of friends finds themselves in the middle of a murder mystery; a murder of one of their own.

Okay, so the premise sounds great, right? I agree, but for more than half of this book, I was so confused. There are so many characters, I couldn’t keep up. The story reads like a play, which is understandable later on in the book. I enjoyed the ending and how things played out eventually but it took me too long to get into. I think it has promise and I can see why some people are enjoying it. I wouldn’t classify this as a thriller, but definitely a mystery. If you like Alex Michaelides and closed door, isolated murders mysteries, this one’s for you.

This one hits shelves on 1/16! Thank you Celadon Books, Macmillan Audio, and Netgalley for the early access copies!

Thanks to #NetGalley and #MacMillanAudio for the ARC #TheFury by #AlexMichaelides. This book is very interesting and has me guessing what would happen next and who was murdered. Full of lies, deceit, cheating and manipulation had me wanting more. Highly recommend.

This was fun and different - would I recommend it to others? No but I wouldn't scoff at someone who enjoyed it.

4.5 rounded to 5 stars

Very similar writing style as “The Silent Patient,” no surprise. Michaelides doesn’t necessarily have the best character development (we want more!), but the plot is always well achieved and we’re even provided with a bit of suspense.

An overall good book for anyone who enjoys a little mystery with a twist.

(I received this ALC via NetGalley in return for an honest review. Thank you.)

Holy moly. Alex Michaelides can write! The format of this story is incredibly unique. Told in omniscient first person, the narrator weaves us in and out, back and forth from the end to the beginning and everything in between. He functions as though he is the Greek chorus in our tragedy. However, he is so much more. He is the puppet master, guiding us through our perceptions and then showing us how wrong we are.

Atmospheric to the hilt, The Fury is twisty but in a different, more subtle and nuanced way. This my friends is not a popcorn thriller. Prepare to be engaged in a game of wit as you try to decipher what has happened and why. Reminiscent of Hitchcock, this twisty, dark, and hella fun novel will keep you flying through the pages.

I was beyond lucky to be chosen by Celadon to be one of the earliest readers of this brilliant novel. I’ll leave you with the blurb I provided to them for inclusion in the ARC copy:

“Unique and thought-provoking with an intense plot meticulously unspooled. In the vein of the Grecian playwrights Michaelides so masterfully emulates, The Fury will leave you as heartbroken as it will breathless.”

Read if you like:
•psychological thrillers
•engaging narrators
•clever writing
•mythological references
•books set in Greece

Thank you Celadon Books (for the opportunity of a lifetime) and Macmillan Audio for my gifted copies.

This book gave me Everyone in my Family Has Killed someone vibes.

This book had twists buy sometimes wasn't sure where it was going. The narrator was great! Books about island setting I just love that setting.

The ending wasn't what I thought but overall a good read!

Thanks NetGalley for letting me read and review

Great twist! I enjoyed the format with flashbacks and the narrator breaking the fourth wall. Well written, excellent narrator.

Elliot Chase, this book's storyteller, is also a main character. He tells us a story about seven people staying together on an island - and he tells us that one of them is dead at the time of the telling. He then walks us through the time leading up the death/murder. But can his story be trusted?

This book was solid. I listened to the audio version and had a hard time turning it off. While it wasn't particularly fast moving, it was attention keeping. I've read both Michaelides' "The Silent Patient" and "The Maidens" and I would place this one right in the middle of the two if I were to rank them. With "The Silent Patient" being my favorite.

This book isn't an edge of your seat, nail biter - it is one that will keep you interested and that you won't want to skip out on either.

Alex Michaelides' books seem to generate strong opinions. I have not read The Silent Patient and liked The Maidens. I like The Fury as well.

We hear the story from one narrator and, as expected, things may not all be as they seem. You're not going to find many characters to root for here. I enjoyed the non-linear timeline as a way to reveal the plot twists, although there was probably one too many twists for me. The stucture of the book kept things moving, even without too much plot to drive it forward. I was interested the whole way through.

The narrator did a great job.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #MacmillanAudio for a free copy of #TheFury by Alex Michaelides. All opinions are my own.

Frenemies, lovers, and friends all on a private Greek island lends itself to a Greek tragedy (the story is even broken up into 5 Acts). All told by one unreliable narrator, there are twists and murders and the story keeps the reader on his/her toes (although some twists are a bit predictable). The story is about a famous retired actress, Lana, her best friends Elliot and Kate, and her husband Jason who has betrayed Lana by sleeping with Kate. All the players (including a few others) have been brought to her private Greek island for a weekend of revenge.

I was so excited to read this one (my daughter and I had been discussing how much we wanted to read it), the Silent Patient is the easiest recommendation to make when people ask for a great book. This one drew me in immediately, I even put down the other book I was reading because I needed to keep going on this one; but I felt let down in the end. I just felt it didn’t deliver the twists I was hoping for. It was entertaining but not the thriller I expected.

I switched between audio and the actual book (actually between the physical and ebook - I went to all three on this one when my kindle died) and the audio was totally engaging and I actually could have done this 100% on audio. But I was hoping for the “wow” twist at the end and it was just a regular one. I will absolutely and excitedly read his next one - I enjoyed the read entirely, I think the Silent Patient just blew me away and I want to be blown away again.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC to review

The Fury by Alex Michaelides is a book for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and the Hawthorne & Horowitz series.

I liked that I wasn't totally sure where the plot was going, and I think the narrator, Alex Jennings, is well cast. And I love the cover, featuring an Evil Eye laid over an island backdrop.

But personally, I was hoping for more of a remote island, lives of the rich and famous feel. Instead this one's more of a, pull-up-a-barstool and hang out next to a meandering narrator, feel.

More than anything though, I was let down by the ending. It just wasn't for me.

Of course, many friends have already had positive things to say about this one, so YMMV!