Fury's Death by Brey Willows

Fury's Death by Brey Willows

My rating: 4.26 of 5 stars


Book received from both Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review

This is the third book in this Afterlife series. I shall immediately note: yes, you should read books 1 and 2 before reading this book here. All three books tell the story that unfolded after a scholar is confronted with the truth about Gods, Goddesses, and the like. All three books feature one of three ‘Fury’ sisters. First book starred Avenging fury Alectho (Alec) Graves and Selene Perkton (that scholar); book 2 starred Alec’s sister Tisera Graves (and Kera Espinosa). And book three? Why, that stars that third fury sister, Megara Graves.

It’s interesting the things that you spot when you do a tiny bit of research. Like, this series is about the three fury sisters. Does that align with the mythology? Are Furies three sisters?

Greek Mythology
a spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who executed the curses pronounced upon criminals, tortured the guilty with stings of conscience, and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides.

Well. That answered that question. ‘one of three goddesses’ (though this series keeps noting that the furies are different and not gods or goddesses but something else. Course, before I spotted that ‘three goddesses’ thing, I spotted the synonyms: ‘virago (domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman), hellcat (spiteful violent woman), termagant (harsh tempered or overbearing woman), spitfire, vixen, shrew, harridan, dragon, gorgon; Eumenides’. Dragon, eh?


Well, that’s fun, let’s move on.


As noted, well two things to bring things back into focus: read the prior books before reading this book; this book stars two characters previously seen in this series - Megara Graves (the fun loving one who would prefer fucking to . . . um, no, she also likes fighting, prefers fucking to reading a book – throws a lot of parties that break down into orgies), and Dani Morana, aka death.


The actions, events, results of the prior book continue to unfold here (as in, the Gods continue to attempt to ‘walk among humans’ while the Afterlife company (which most Gods/Goddesses are members of) attempts to deal with ‘complications’ like Humanity First (anti-gods/goddesses), and people randomly ending up slaughtered. This paragraph was specifically going to be about how Dis, that Chaos goddess, was running around doing discordant stuff, but paragraph got away from me.


Like her sisters, Megara is having something like a crisis enveloping her, unlike her sisters, it isn’t about her work as a Fury, but her . . . stuff she does when not a fury. The constant partying and stuff. Mixed in is the part where she a) doesn’t want a committed relationship; b) wants Dani but doesn’t think Dani would go for a non-committed type fling.


Dani, meanwhile, is dealing with weird changes she’s noticing like with certain souls, and her own weird tinge of something or other I can’t be more elaborate about without spoiling. Also – she’s lusted after (loved?) Megara for centuries but isn’t the kind of person to make her thoughts known. Or something like that. Well, no, there are instances when I spotted an ‘issue’ a mile off that would be based on miscommunication but . . . didn’t happen because people communicated with each other.

Right, I probably have a temperature of around 105 degrees, or something like that, so my brain is boiling. Hopefully whatever I’ve written here is coherent enough to be read.


Did I like the story? Yes. Did I like the characters? Yes. Was I blown away by the graphic depictions of sex? No.

One last thought that I had while playing with my shelves/tags for the book: While Meg has been with women, she's not a lesbian, but more of a . . . well no word was used. I imagine something like 'Pansexual' would apply. It is not clear if Dani is a lesbian or not, though her one mentioned relationship, prior to Meg, was with a woman.

Rating: 4.26

February 1 2018




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