Review – Fury by Elizabeth Miles

Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at 9:07 am

Fury by Elizabeth Miles
Fury Series #1
From Publishers – Simon and Schuster
Release Date – 1st Sept 2011

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In book one of the Fury trilogy, Em Winters and Chase Singer discover that a little guilt isn’t the only consequence of doing wrong. After Em hooks up with her best friend’s boyfriend and Chase’s secret harassment of a social outcast spirals out of control, three mysterious Furies-paranormal creatures that often assume the form of beautiful women-come to town to make sure that Em and Chase get what they deserve. Not everyone will survive-and those who do will discover there are worse punishments than death. But when Em befriends outcast Drea and learns more about who and what the Furies really are, she becomes resolved above all to take them down and stop their plans. Little does Em know that, by confronting the Furies, she could become inextricably bound to them for life.

Fury centres around several teenagers and the tangled web they weave for themselves. Elizabeth Miles mixes youth, relationships, revenge and karma with a little Greek mythology. From the very beginning I had this overwhelming sense of anticipation, I knew something was going to happen, I just didn’t know what or when and I think it was this that helped me to flip through the pages of this book very quickly.

About the Author: Elizabeth Miles grew up in Chappaqua, New York, not far from New York City. She graduated from Boston University in 2004, and has worked ever since as a journalist for an alternative newsweekly. She has been honored by the New England Press Association and the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Elizabeth is a former trustee of the Portland Players, a community theater and second home. She loves pizza; she can often be found running around on stage while scantily clad; and a cold winter night in Maine is one of the creepiest and most beautiful things she can think of. Fury is Elizabeth’s first novel.