Review: The Furies

The Furies by Katie Lowe
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Not entirely sure how to write a review of this book. On the one hand, it delved deep into human relationships and how twisted they can be, and how dark and damaged people can become. It was vivid and complex in its portrayal of broken people doing breaking things to other broken people. In that way disgustingly and exceedingly successful. On the other hand, though, not a single character was likable. I couldn't root for any. Even the one that the author kind of made me want to cheer for... yeah, well, she ripped that little bit of redeemable quality right out of the character.

I'm still not quite sure if the supernatural part was real or not, and I both hate and love that about the book. Almost everything about this book was lukewarm (beyond the depths of dis-likability of the main characters) or left unsure or hanging.

Mostly, there was one twist I didn't expect (and if there wasn't actually any supernatural, then it wasn't a twist at all) and that, coupled with how well the author managed to make complex, deep characters, left me with a middle of the road, "liked it" three stars.

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