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Fury by Steven James is the second book in the Blur Trilogy about a young man with the extraordinary ability to pick up the details of a crime and piece them together through hallucinations. For Daniel Byers, life returned to normal after solving the death of a classmate last fall. Now the blurs are back, and they are worse than ever. Can Daniel and his friends find the cause before reality blurs with fiction?

The protagonist can also be the antagonist.

So poor Daniel is seeing things again and this time he has no way of telling if they are real or just in his head. Literally he feels like he is going crazy and who can blame him? If I were seeing dead girls who talk to me in the middle of the school bus I would be freaking out. Instead Daniel stays relatively calm, though inwardly questioning his sanity, and calls his best friend and their girlfriends to help him. I guess this is a smart call as the last time his blurs appeared a girl was murdered and it needed to be solved. To Kyle, Mia, and Nicole's credit they did not accuse him of going crazy. Instead they sided with him and pretty much followed Daniel's lead as he went further down the rabbit hole.

The plot of this story is fairly intricate as there are three sub plots tied together. First, someone is poaching wolves, a big no-no in Wisconsin. Daniel believes that his blurs are to help his father solve the case. Then his father goes missing and Daniel is accused as the culprit. Poor Daniel has enough on his plate people without thinking he's done something to his dad!!! Lastly there's the girl in his vision and her link to a barn he played in as a kid.

I love how the author tied these plots together in the mind of Daniel and just how Daniel's mind works. It's amazing. As I said in my review of book one, Daniel is like Rainman without the social stigma. He's very smart and a genius when it comes to numbers. He picks up on details others wouldn't notice and then his brain pieces the information together and voila! He has a blur. It's all fascinating and the nurse side of me is screaming that he is a bit obsessive compulsive with counting, but I digress ;)

Daniel and his friends make for a fun cast of characters, though I wish there was a bit more depth to them. There's only surface details, not much personality aside from Daniel. Oh! And mystery man who is introduced in this book is quite intriguing. I can't wait to learn more about him in book three :D

Once again the author surprised me with a few twists I didn't see coming and in no way could I have predicted them. I think I'll go back and do a reread now that I know the ending and see if I can pick up any details that I may have missed. If you enjoy crime mysteries and young adult fiction, then this book is for you!

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