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What Fury Brings

By: Tricia Levenseller
Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand, Joseph Bader
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#1 New York Times-bestselling author Tricia Levenseller makes her adult debut in What Fury Brings, a sexy, empowering romantasy featuring a warrior general who must kidnap and train a husband in order to take her rightful place as queen.

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.

©2025 Tricia Levenseller (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd.
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This is a brilliantly fierce and addictive dark romantasy that completely flips the patriarchy on its head. Set in a brutal matriarchal kingdom where women hold all the power, it’s a story born from female rage — not a fluffy romance, but a sharp, clever reflection of our own world through a reversed lens.

Princess Olerra kidnaps Prince Sanos to secure her claim to the throne, and what follows is a tense, slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance full of angst, politics, and power struggles. Think forced proximity, arranged kidnapping, magic, vengeance, and swoony chemistry.

It had everything I love in adult romantasy: a fiery princess FMC, a misunderstood and lovable royal MMC, angsty tension and chemistry, a richly crafted world, layered characters, high stakes, humour and darkness, marriage of convenience, court politics, and a world that’s as uncomfortable as it is compelling.

And the narrators are brilliant!

Dark and delicious

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To good bits: the concept of women being as strong as men and treating them how much of society treated women was very thought-provoking.

The bad bits: if you want your romantasy stories with a strong male lead, this book won't be for you. It wasn't for me. Him being dragged around by a nipple clamp, chained, her doing the fighting and him standing back...If you want the fantasy of a strong, protective male in your romanc this isn't it at all. I thought the roles might reverse half way through or they'd be equal partners but no.

Dominant Women and Weak Men

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I think this is decent and interesting enough to listen to. I found this book from a review by Willow. Apparently, this is supposed to be feminist, but it seems like it just anti men (straight men).

Pros:
Interesting premise. Both narrators are good. It's at least something different and trying to be unique.

Cons:
The main problem with the book is that matriarchy is extreme. Imagine you put all the worst things men have done to women into a society, then gender flipped it.

For example, if I was trying to explain Medieval Europe, and started to talk about Black Death, Crusades, Heresy Burnings, the Great Famine. You would think maybe Medieval Europe was hell on earth.

Under the patriarchy we got powerful women like Queen Elizabeth I and Isabella of Castile. Maybe, the message of the book is that a matriarchy would be worse than a patriarchy.

Is this supposed to be feminist?

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