I’m 41% into Furybound (Sable Sorensen) and honestly…
… I’m disappointed. The book feels like one long, exhausting extension of an extra chapter from book one rather than an actual second installment. For a sequel in a trilogy, the pacing is incredibly slow.
The romance barely exists. We’re a book and a half in and it still feels like nothing beyond a vague crush. The interactions between the FMC and MMC are weak, generic, and emotionally flat. Then suddenly there are random flirtatious moments that feel awkward and completely out of place because these characters are not close enough for those scenes to land naturally.
The MMC also feels underdeveloped. His entire personality seems to revolve around being “scary,” while the FMC is constantly whining and refusing to accept her power. At this point, the friend group dynamic is honestly more interesting than the main romance.
There have been like 5 battle scenes that feel almost irrelevant to the plot. They could have used those chapters to delve deeper into the Romance. It reads mostly like a Fantasy battle book rather than Romantasy.
What confuses me most is that this is only a three-book series. If book two is moving this slowly at 41%, I genuinely don’t know where the third book is supposed to go.