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"Wow. So you're, like, humankind's sword and shield?"
"Something like that. Only honestly, right now I feel like I'm staring down an army, wielding nothing but a plastic spork."
Rachel Vincent is an author I have enjoyed and admired for many years, so I was absolutely delighted to be granted an e-ARC of Fury - the final book in the Menagerie trilogy. I eagerly devoured the first two books immediately upon release, and have been anxiously awaiting the end of October when Fury is available to the public. When I saw it available on NetGalley, I couldn't resist requesting it, even though I assumed it was very unlikely I would get a copy. I might have squealed when I saw I'd been accepted... much to my partner's confusion.
This book is different from the previous two books as it focuses on two main characters across two different periods of time.
Fury continues to follow Delilah and her cryptid friends in their journey to find the friends and family they have been separated from by America's anti-cryptid laws. However, for the first time we also get to see what the Reaping was like for those who experienced it in 1986 through the perspective of Rebecca Essig, whose sister turns out to be one of the surrogates who were placed amongst humankind to control them.
After the events of Spectacle, Delilah is now hugely pregnant, and people are more on edge about cryptids than ever due to their breakout from the Savage Spectacle. Combine this with the furiae's unexplained and unnerving execution of several men who have wandered too close to their cabin, plus Gallagher attempting to reconcile his vow to protect Delilah above all others with the fact that she's carrying his child, and the whole group is very much on edge. Interspersed with Rebecca's experiences of the Reaping and the years afterwards, Fury steadily leads us to see how the two sequences are related; culminating in Delilah's ultimate realisation of the role she has to play, as well as the impossible decision she must make.
How can she face a future in which her kind will forever be hunted?
Why did the furiae choose her in the first place?
What can she do when she is forced to choose between her family and the rest of the world?
Vincent does a fantastic job of creating the atmosphere of tension and anxiety which would be sure to permeate any situation such as this, and draws this sensational series to an appropriately dramatic, if heartbreaking, ending.
I only wish there were more Menagerie books to come; it's a world I'm not quite ready to leave just yet.
Fury is due to be released in Paperback on October 30th 2018, and for Kindle on November 1st 2018.
The Kindle edition is currently available on Amazon for £3.99 which is an absolute bargain, so definitely go and grab yourself a copy while it's so reasonable!
This e-ARC was supplied by Harlequin - MIRA via NetGalley.