Fury by Elizabeth Miles
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book has been out for a while, and I heard mixed things about it. But it still has an awesome cover (though different than the one I first saw) and the blurb is intriguing, if vague. It wasn’t a bad story, and I finished it rather quickly, but I can see why people were iffy about it. For a while I wondered if there will be any paranormal events in the novel, then they show up, and I wondered why they were there.

**Spoilers ahead**

The Furies show up in this little town, intent on revenge for teens’ misdeeds (but the misdeeds aren’t towards the Furies themselves). They go after bullies and gossipers and (almost) adulterers, but we never know why. Who set them on this course of “justice,” and why are they hanging around Maine? Are they the real Greek Furies, after all this time, or are they tormented witches, bound through the ages to wreak revenge? Why do they pick those they punish? Yes, the characters they choose have done bad things (with varying degrees of badness), but most folks would agree, and the author even points out, that an eye for an eye results in a bunch of blind people. We just never find out why the Furies are doing what they’re doing, and the ways they seek redress for trespasses seem disproportionate to the crimes. Maybe we’ll find out in the next book, so I guess I’ll have to search it out to find the answers to my questions.

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