Brian’s Reviews > The Fury Yet to Come > Status Update

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Soldier guy, approximately: "You just spent weeks being tortured by the enemy and they could've messed with your head in any number of ways and you should be far physically weaker than you'd been? No recuperation necessary, here's a field promotion!"

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Main character facing down evil torture lady with a sword in his hand. He shoves her into a crevasse to off her. The author could've at least made it a struggle that didn't blatantly telegraph her coming back later. Come on, he had a bloody sword in his hand.

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Big boss guy in full suit of armor goes down to a pacificist who's been tortured for weeks wielding a (presumably old and likely brittle) skull to the back of the head. Right.

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- Main character pulls out some tidbit of knowledge about how "the Indecim" "means eleven!" concerning a eleven statues or some such nonsense involving that number
- Eleven in Latin is "undecim," so clearly we're just bastardizing Latin for these names.
- Main character: Why would a bunch of monks be buried here, on the Sanctecano Islands?
- Sancte in Latin denotes something holy, sacred, etc. Cano: grey.

"Gallows' stomach hardened like petrified wood." The building he's in is coming down. Wouldn't wood take a substantial amount of time to petrify? I don't get the analogy.

....and now Stranger-guy calls main character out by his first name when that introduction never happened. I don't think editing happened on this book, either.

- Main character follows stranger
- Stranger doesn't utter a word to him
- Main character calls stranger "Damien"
- Not even half a page later, "My name, by the way, is Damien."

How do you miss that in editing?

"The Idari has turned Dalthea's own people against each other,"

Literally the first time any sort of division in main character's hometown is even mentioned.

- Torture lady is having other tortured guy physically assaulted.
- Main character tries to stop her, gets held down.
- Main character, while still being held down: I'm going to do the exact same thing I just tried where I was extremely unsuccessful, but I'm going to wait to see if the one other guy dies first BEFORE I try to save him.

Up to this point, the word "arsehole" was the going rate, but now we've switched to "asshole" instead. Consistency is not a priority here.