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    The Furies

    Written by Katie Lowe

    Narrated by Olivia Dowd

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    ‘An atmospheric, disturbing, even scary tale that touches on otherworldliness’
    THE TIMES
    ‘Too-cool-for-school teenage girls, an outsider welcomed into their fold, and murder…a guaranteed good read’
    STYLIST
    ‘Witchcraft, murder, and adolescent passion’
    HEAT

    IT’S 1997. VIOLET IS A NEW STUDENT AT ELM HOLLOW ACADEMY AND DESPERATE TO FIT IN.

    Quiet, artistic, unremarkable. When invited to an advanced study group by her alluring art teacher, Annabel, she is at once terrified and delighted.

    There she meets Robin, Grace, and Alex: charismatic outsiders who invite her into their clique.

    But once the study sessions on the school’s history of seventeenth-century witchcraft and magic become more than just theory, Violet must decide what she’s prepared to do in order to stay popular.

    And maybe she’ll solve the mystery of what happened to a former member of their group. The one who went missing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 2, 2019
    ISBN9780008289003
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    The Furies
    Author

    Katie Lowe

    KATIE LOWE is a writer living in Worcester, UK. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, she has a BA (Hons) in English and an MPhil in Literature & Modernity, and is currently pursuing her PhD in female rage in literary modernism and contemporary women's writing. She is the author of The Furies and Possession.

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    • 2/5
      This was not for me and I feel like that is 10 hours I will not get back. I am so disappointed as I have been looking forward to this one
    • 5/5
      Katie Lowe made me appreciated what friendship is. The Furies is outstandingly interesting from the first moment I got my hands on it. It's a rather basic plot all too familiar to Mean Girls in my opinion but with a rather compelling depth into it. Violet becomes a version of herself she never imagined thanks to her new sisters and the lessons they privately take. Mysteries rises, magic is blossoming, and you can't look away from it.
      This book really took my breath away. It's spell draw me into it the moment I opened the first page. It is simply grandeur, sassy and downright terrifying something and not afraid to go and explore those red lines, the limits we are uncomfortable with. The writing although looks rather customary as of any Young Adult but it doesn't do that, Lowe got the sparks in her fingertips and every word made me swoon. It is personal, relate able and downright somber.
      I highly recommend you take a moment of your time and read this.
      God I beg you.
    • 3/5
      Great narrator. The book itself was okay - didn’t like or emphasise with any of the characters, which made it so much harder to enjoy.
    • 2/5
      Well, this was dull. I really wanted to like this book and went into it with an open mind but it just wasn’t meant to be. I did think about abandoning the book at several points but I pushed through in hopes that the ending would be exciting enough to make up for the incredibly slow-paced story. It wasn’t. I thought that the premise of this book sounded like it had a lot of promise. It should have been an exciting story with deaths occurring and the history of witchcraft at the school but it just fell flat for me.I didn’t like any of the characters which made it hard to connect with the story. I thought that the very beginning of the book where we learn Violet’s history was very well done and I wanted to be sympathetic toward her character but it just didn’t happen. Violet, Robin, Alex, and Grace just were not very likable. Robin was the ringleader for much of the story and she really just seemed like a bad influence on Violet. I was bored throughout the book.I listened to the audiobook and thought that Olivia Dowd did a great job with the narration. Honestly, I don’t think that I would have finished the book if it were not for her narration. She had a pleasant voice and I liked the distinctive voices that she used for the various characters.This is not a book that I will be recommending this book. This was a very slow-moving story with characters I didn’t care about. I do think that some readers will like this one a lot more than I did.I received a review copy of this book from St. Martin’s Press Press and borrowed a copy of the audiobook.
    • 3/5
      Reading this, it was hard for me not to think of the movie “The Craft”, a movie I throughly enjoyed when it was released and still do to this day. Not only because of the magic influence, but the character Robin strongly reminded me of “Nancy”. I applaud the author for creating characters that are sympathetic and abhorrent at the same time. You can clearly feel Violet’s desperation and longing, and the background descriptions are just as vivid. As I stated earlier, thankfully this book wasn’t as bizarre as “Bunny” was (because I know readers are divided over the plot). Never fear, this one was much more straight forward for readers. My only complaint was what I felt was a lack of character development on Alex and Grace. We are given some background on them, but it was made obvious that the main focus was on Robin and her friendship with Violet. I just never felt like I knew enough about them, and they soon became background characters, only appearing at crucial moments.
    • 3/5
      Violet, a teenage girl with a tragic past, is a new student at Elm Hollow Academy. She has no close friends until her art teacher, Annabel offers her to chance to join a special small study group. There she befriends Robin, Alex, and Grace, and grows almost obsessively close with Robin, whose former best friend disappeared the year before.But as Violet learns more about the school's past, and the past of her new friends, she finds herself drawn into the world of The Furies, full of revenge, ancient spells, and deadly consequences.The book opens with a bang, the reader already being told that one of the teenage characters dies, having been found on a swing in a white dress with no indication of what (or who) killed her. We have no idea which character it is, or what happened, but we are immediately thrust into the story with Violet, our narrator. This builds up so much suspense and makes you have to keep turning pages.I just wanted to shake all the characters, especially Violet, and tell them just to stop doing what they're doing. I also didn't really like any of the characters, which seemed like the point, but I tend to struggle with books like that.The very last few pages also just didn't work for me. That last-minute plot development didn't really seem to fit with what came before.I liked this book, but didn't love it like I was hoping I would. It's a creepy, eerie, suspenseful read, but it can get confusing, and the characters are so hard to like.
    • 4/5
      Violet moves into a new school where the only girl who seems to want to befriend her is a redhead named Robin. Through Robin she meets two other girls (renegades) and they become a clique. As time passes Violet learns of the mysterious death of a girl who she seems to be replacing in the clique. The upshot of all this is that this group seem to have the uncanny power to make people die. I liked the book and I feel that my review is not doing justice.
    • 3/5
      I stepped a bit out of my reading comfort zone for this one and even though this wasn't a complete winner for me, I am glad I read it. Initially I had been concerned how much witchcraft was going to play in the story as that's not something I'm typically all that interested in. However, there really was a lot going on in the story besides that so I do believe this book has the potential to appeal to a wide variety of readers.So the book starts off with the narrator talking about how years ago a 16 year old girl was found dead on school property. Super mysterious as to what exactly happened. We are then taken back in time to when Violet, the narrator, was growing up and had just recently lost both her father and sister due to a car accident. She has just enrolled as a new student at Hollow Academy, a private girl's school, where she can hopefully have a fresh start. The school has the unfortunate history of being the site for witch trials during the 17th century. Violet is a bit of an outsider for a variety of reasons but she is invited to join a private study group. And that's all your getting out of me as I think it's best to go in to this one without a lot of prior info.One of the strengths of the novel was there were quite a few things I didn't see coming and to me it was a good feeling not ever knowing just exactly what the author had in store. I think that also contributed to the whole creepy vibe of the story. This book has been compared to the movie, The Craft, and I definitely do not think that is a bad or off the wall comparison. However, I just don't think the group of four girls in this book had the same spark, charisma, or whatever you want to call it as the characters in the movie. Alex and Grace in particular just blended in together as I didn't find either one to be all that memorable. I also can't help but feel like there was almost too much that was added to the story in terms of different topics and themes the author wanted to explore and as a result it felt messy at times.I might not have been in love with the execution, but I have no regrets about reading this one and I do appreciate the effort to bring something different to the genre.Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review!