Fury

by Rachel Vincent Narrated by Gabra Zackman

Overview

For fans of commercial urban fantasy like the popular Red Rising series by Pierce Brown, this is the astoundingly powerful finale of Rachel Vincent's Menagerie trilogy, where Delilah will uncover the truth about her mystical Furaie origins and discover her true purpose: to stop a second deadly war on humanity. Told through two intersecting timelines, the grand finale to Rachel Vincent's stunning Menagerie series will reveal the secret of how Delilah Marlow became a furiae just as she discovers what her true purpose is. In 1986, humanity experienced The Reaping- a nationwide slaughter of six-year-old children by their parents-one of the country's most horrific tragedies. What's even more terrifying: the revelation that the few six-year-old survivors of the country's greatest tragedy are now thought to have caused it.These aren't the children their families believed they were. In truth, they were fae changelings brought home from the hospital in place of the real babies they were exchanged for. From that day forward, the world would never trust another cryptid. For if the fae were capable of such dark evil, surely all cryptid creatures posed a danger to humanity. Now, Delilah Marlow and a rogue group of cryptids are on the run, having narrowly escaped the horrors of the Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife" that specialized in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts and living party favors. As they travel in search of lost family members and cryptid friends, Delilah struggles with the difficulties of pregnancy, complicated by the bitter memory of how her child was conceived. Then one morning Delilah wakes up with dried blood all over her hands. Though she has no memory of it, she obviously went somewhere-and possibly killed someone-in her sleep. Soon, Delilah finds herself constantly pulled by the furiae, which she hasn't felt stir within her in quite a while, but who she has no choice but to follow. As she is compelled to act of the furiae's impulses, she's beginning to realize that something much bigger is at stake. There is something connecting her victims, something more than the usual injustice she kills them for-and perhaps something as dangerous as another Reaping.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

★ 09/24/2018
This gripping novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the events of Spectacle, concludes Vincent’s Menagerie series in marvelous fashion. In an alternate near-future Maryland, Delilah Marlow, a cryptid endowed with the formidable supernatural powers of the avenging furiae, and newly escaped from government-sanctioned imprisonment of her species, helps to rescue members of her extended cryptid family from a university research facility. Her efforts are complicated by her pregnancy with her child by her fear dearg lover, Gallagher, which is prompting her to acts of bloodshed so out of character that she wonders whether they portend a critical destiny for her. In alternating chapters, Vincent revisits 1986, the year of “the reaping,” when a worldwide act of genocide divided humans and cryptids into warring species and laid foundations for the revelations about identity and family that explode in the closing chapters. The book is a fitting finale to an exceptional dark fantasy series, as memorable for its sensitive depiction of a marginalized race as for its surprising plot twists. Agent: Merrilee Heiftez, Writers House. (Nov.)

From the Publisher

"[A] bravura example of fantasy series-building.... Guarantees that fans of the series will eagerly anticipate its next chapter." –Publisher's Weekly on Spectacle

"What a disturbingly dark and haunting world Rachel Vincent has crafted...[but] it is the characters who are the heart and soul... The strength, love, and loyalty we see emerging out of the darkness...makes Spectacle so significant. I can't wait to see what unfolds in the third book of the Menagerie series!" -FreshFiction.com

"[Spectacle] has the same sharp social commentary of its extraordinary predecessor, Menagerie - and adds in more than a dash of gleefully vengeful anti-elitism." –RT Book Reviews

"Well paced, readable and imaginative." -The New York Times, on Menagerie

"Vincent summons bold and vivid imagery with her writing, especially with the otherworld aspects of the carnival." -Kirkus Reviews, on Menagerie

"[Menagerie] is a dark tale of exploited and abused others, expertly told by Vincent." -Library Journal, starred review

"As depicted by Vincent, Delilah is magnificent in her defiance of injustice, and the well-wrought background for her world sets the stage for her future adventures in this captivating new fantasy series." -Publishers Weekly

"Vincent creates a fantastic world that is destined to pique your curiosity... As Delilah Marlow slowly uncovers a side of herself that she never knew existed, you'll sympathize with her...desperate to see her succeed." -RT Book Reviews, Top Pick!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171085049
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/30/2018
Series:	Rachel Vincent's Menagerie Series , #3
Edition description:	Unabridged

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