Book Review: The Fury By Alex Michaelides

The Fury 

By Alex Michaelides 

Published Year : 2024 

Page Count : 289 pages 

Medium Used : iPad Pro

Genre : Mystery, Murder, Suspense, Whodunit, Fiction, 2024-read. 

Rating : 4/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟

I liked this story. I liked the narrative style. I liked the way it triggered the juices of my own inner detective. Everything happens but it is not really happening. What seems on the surface is not what is on the inside. Good people turn bad, bad people become good. What we see is not what we get. Its a convoluted and garbled nonsense that makes absolute sense once everything is said and done. Highly recommend! 

Just when we are settling down for there being no murder, a murder happens and someone gets locked up for life for it. This is a story of recounting a crime of passion and betrayal, getting rid of the one person who was loved like means everything! 

Getting into the story a bit, an ex-actress invites her friends and family to a getaway on an island in Greece. She plots with her best friend to use this opportunity to isolate and admonish her husband and friend whom they suspect to be cheating behind her back. Unknown to her, her scheming friend, wants to get rid of her husband and seize her for himself. When she learns this, what does she do? When does she learn of his vixen heart and coy plots? On the island, nearly three murders happen .. when in reality it is only one. Instead of figuring out who has done what, we will be immersed in a time game of what, who, knew, when and what they did with that subtle knowledge! 

I liked the flow of narration. It goes straight forward for a while and then starts leaping backward in time to different flashbacks and everything we come to believe in, turns on its head giving the reader a jolt of interminable adrenaline highs!!