That was a very nice review Nessa. I think it gave us a really good view of the book. When I had read through it, the first half seemed impossible to get past. The story overall felt clunky, a lot of the characters were very hard to care about, and a lot of the tension felt too cursory. Once I got to the halfway point, I finally felt drawn into the story. I was intrigued at what was actually going on and all the complexities become very endearing to me. I liked how he ended just the current story, but left his overarcing story still unfinished.
I am really exited to continue reading the series. I have high hoped for it, and It is really nice to see people progress both in skill and their careers. His other series, The Dresden Files, definitely improved dramatically once he started writing this series. I think he got a much better idea of how to bring us into deeper contact with the characters and how to make us feel there is actually more that is going on.
The last thing I want to metion is the reason I started reading Furies. I was intrigued why he started writing it. It was so bizarre a situation I couldn't help but be curious how it would unravel. I am not sure if people know the story or are interested. I can find links and briefly explain if others want, but I don't want to start getting into this everyone here already knows the story or isn't interested.