Title: Wings of Fury
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Wings of Fury # 1
Publication: March 1, 2021 by 47North
Source: I received a review copy from WunderKind PR in exchange for a honest review.
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Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions.
On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing. Because Cronus has caught wind of the plot. He’s amassing his own forces against Althea’s righteous rebellion and all those who will no longer surrender or run. There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.
My Thoughts
Greek mythology is back y’all. I remember Greek mythos was all the rage in YA and Middle Grade back around 2010. And I honestly haven’t encounter many Greek mythology inspired novels since then, that is until now with King’s Wings of Fury. Wings of Fury is a coming of age and self-discovery story of Althea Lambros. As with most heroine in a story, Althea is destined for greatness and on her journey to greatness she is prophesied to bring down the tyrannical Titan Cronus with the help of The Boy God.
Many Greek inspired novels are centered on the Gods and Goddess. I love that Wings of Fury took a different route and focused on the Titan…and womanhood. This past year it was all about girl power and femininity taking center stage and Wings of Fury is no exception. Althea is a very independent and headstrong character. While she is the middle child of three sisters, she is a true lioness when it came to protecting her family and those she cared about.
I love that we were right besides Althea as she set out to discover herself, not only her true identity but what she’s capable of. Even a tribe of so-called warrior women was not match for Althea, she didn’t back down to any man, woman or god. I liked her fieriness. However, the supporting cast wasn’t as interesting as our lead. While Theo and Zeus played an important role and I enjoyed their banter, they easily faded into the background. And Althea’s sisters were sadly the least memorable of the cast. I never connected with them and hope the sequel will heavily focused just on the trio: Althea, Theo and Zeus.
Overall Wings of Fury was a solid start to a brand new series. I enjoyed it and am looking forward to seeing more titans and gods and what King has in store for Althea. If you like female, feminist driven novels with a dose of Greek mythology then Wings of Fury is for you. It’s a fairy short novel that offered a few hours of escapism. Which was exactly what I needed.
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