Audiobook Review: Fury by Rachel Vincent

Series:	Menagerie #3
Pub. Date:	Oct 30, 2018
Publisher:	Recorded Books
Narrator:	Gabra Zackman
Length:	8 hrs 29 min
Source:	RBDigital

This is a blogger shame review as it's quite overdue, but life has gotten crazy busy for me the last few months. So I was happy that I found an audio copy of this book available at the library so I could listen on my drive home over the holidays. 

I have really enjoyed the Menagerie series. It's a unique dark fantasy combined with a bit of mythology and horror, that was refreshing, though sometimes sad and hard to read. You definitely need to read the series in order, as its a continuing story arc, that progresses with each installment. It seems that Fury is the final installment, I'm sad to say. 

Note:  This review may contain spoilers for previous books in the series. 

In this final story, Delilah, Gallagher, and the other Cryptids have survived Metzger's Menagerie, the cruel carnival. They have defeated and escaped Vandekamp, the private collector. Now they are all on the run, hiding where they can, rescuing other cryptids when possible, and doing so with little resources and while pregnant and infirm. This installment didn't have quite the number of action sequences that I got used to in the earlier books, but it was interesting all the same. I continued to enjoy reading the interactions between the Cryptids, who have become a ragtag family at this point. I also really enjoy seeing the relationship between Delilah and Gallagher evolve into something new and special as the pregnancy progresses. But I have been rooting for them since Gallagher first made his oath to Delilah in Menagerie. 

I thought the conflict in this story was an interesting choice, and not one I would have guessed after reading the earlier books. But I like the unexpected, so I did enjoy this aspect of the story. I don't want to say much here and give it away, but I think others may be surprised at the angle the author took as well. 

Now, it took me a few days to gather my thoughts and write this review, because I was a bit stunned by the ending. And it's really killing me to not be able to talk about it! I want to call my friends and make them read the series just so I can get a little shouty about CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???? Alas, I will have to wait and hold my tongue. I will say that it took guts to go in that direction, and leave it at that.

If you are a fan of dark fantasy, you are sure to love this series as much as I did. Rachel Vincent is an excellent writer.

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