Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced readers copy in exchange for my honest review. I read The Furies after the book had been released so some of my concerns might have been fixed in the published copy.

The Furies tells the story of four young women, the fates they hold, and the furies they possess. The book starts with a girl found dead, posed on a swing at Elm Hollow Academy. Flashback to a year earlier, Violet is a new student at the prep school. She befriends three girls – Alex, Grace, and Robin. She finds herself in an advanced course with these girls where the teacher, Annabel, teaches them the school's long-buried history of the school founder's "academic" interest in the occult and witchcraft. Although Annabel tries to teach them that these are just stories, the girls decide to delve into some spells to gain things for themselves.

When I read the description of this book, I immediately thought it was going to be like the movie “The Craft” which I loved, but unfortunately it was nothing like it. Yes, there are four girls experimenting with witchcraft, but that’s about the only comparison. I felt that The Furies was a slow burn throughout the entire book. It moved at such a slow pace, and I wanted more to happen with the spells the girls were doing. There was very little action in a book about using witchcraft to get revenge for being wronged.

I also felt that the book was very disjointed at times. This may have been fixed prior to the book being published, but it was really choppy in places. The girls would be walking in town then all of a sudden at one of their houses with no description of them getting there. It made it confusing to keep up with what was going on at times.

Unfortunately, this just wasn’t a book for me.