Two opposing viewpoints: Claire Legrand's Furyborn is, at its crux, about a war between angels and humans; the war between angels and humans in Claire Legrand's Furyborn is a nominal plot point at best. In the end, the truth is somewhere in the middle. When I settled in to read Furyborn , it was with visions of Kendare Blake's Three Dark Crowns and Erika Johansen's Tearling series' dancing in my head. So color me surprised when the word "angel" makes its grand entrance in the first thousand words of chapter one and remains a central theme. I take no umbrage with angel-centric plots; in fact I devoured Susan Ee's Penryn & the End of Days series. But I didn't realize that's what I was getting into and, I must admit, it immediately made me wary. A poorly executed story about angels can go awry quite quickly. In the end, though, my misgivings were for naught. The dual narrated stories of Queen Rielle and assassin Eliana we
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