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title = "In Fury Born - David Weber"
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date = 2020-06-20
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "review", "scifi", "fantasy", "1 star", "2020 challenge"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130528.In_Fury_Born):
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Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch
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them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking
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pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided
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ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured and murdered her
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family, and then left her for dead. Alicia decided to turn "pirate" herself,
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and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from the Empire to start her vendetta. Her
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fellow veterans think she's gone crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight
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orders. And of course the pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has
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two allies nobody knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware
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computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends.
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And this trio of furies won't rest until vengeance is served.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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- (--) The beginning of the book puts a lot of backstory, all in the wrong
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places: You're in the middle of a conversation, the conversation stops, a
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lot of stuff is thrown at your face and... the conversation just
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continues. Where did you stop? What where they were discussing?
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- (--) In between backstories, there is a bunch of characters. Characters and
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more characters are thrown in the story, perform something small,
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disappear for a while, and suddenly appear again and who the heck was
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that? Did they mentioned them before? Worse, some names are so close you
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don't even know if it is a new character or an old one.
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- (-) The first battles are too long and provide nothing about the future.
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- (--) I don't have a problem with mixing scifi with fantasy,
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but you have to build an universe for that (sad to say, but something akin
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to "[Bright](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5519340/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)"), but
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when you suddenly add a Greek spirit... everything seems to fall apart.
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- (+) Some points are really well constructed. For example, there is a
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discussion between three characters and you don't need descriptions to
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know who's talking; their tone and words make things clear.
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- (=) The pacing only gets convincing the end, when everything is done.
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Honestly, it could be a good story, if the spirit was removed, the backstories
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cleaned out, some stuff that doesn't affect anything in the long run (pointing
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that they happened, with short summary would suffice) and make it shorter
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would be a real improvement.
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