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What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller (ARC Review)

Title: What Fury Brings
Author: Tricia Levenseller
Type: Fiction
Genre: Adult, Romantasy
Publisher: FEIWEL
Date published: September 23, 2025

A complimentary physical copy was kindly provided by FEIWEL in exchange for an honest review.

There’s a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.

Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband. And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet, docile temperament. He’s the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.

Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father’s overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother’s place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he truly wants.

⤖ My Review ⬻

I really wanted to like What Fury Brings! Two kingdoms at war, kidnapping (hehe), enemies to lovers. Some really fun elements are there, but unfortunately, it didn’t quite work for me. While I find a matriarchy to be something different to write about, my personal preferrence leans more toward balance rather than power being mostly with one particular group. This did overshadow my experience with this book, as well as how the power shift affected certain…moments.

I will say, the characters were fun and memorable, especially prince Sanos and his brothers. I really wanted to like the other lead, Olerra, as well but ended up liking her friend better (who I think will be one of the leads in the next book). That being said, I did root for Olerra’s cause within her kingdom, and found the writing to be very engaging. I would read something by this author ago, just perhaps not something from this series (though that remains to be seen).

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