The Furies are no longer content with vengeance; now they want to destroy the town of Ascension in this third title in the Fury trilogy. Using the high school's production of a Greek tragedy as a backdrop, this final installment still has plenty of secrets to reveal, as Emily has only days to unbind herself from the Furies or become one of them. JD, who also knows about the scorned temptresses, is fighting for Emily's freedom as well d a chance to finally begin a romance that was always meant to be. If only Fury Ty didn't look so much like Emily when she tries to seduce JD and didn't have plans of her own, including becoming human again. This fitting conclusion smoothly wraps up a high-interest series.

As the Furies, reincarnated from Greek mythology, continue to wreak havoc on Ascension High, Em, JD, and Crow struggle to understand what's happening. The complexities of friendships, romances, and family relationships provide the fodder both for the Furies' torment and the inspiration for banishing them. The outcome for the sympathetic survivors of Fury and Envy is predictable in this trilogy-ender.

An overall satisfying conclusion to a tale that imagines the Furies as three beautiful but terrifying supernatural sisters who thrive on vengeance against teens who they feel have done wrong. The fictional town of Ascension, Maine, is the backdrop for this modern reworking of Greek mythology. It offers up plenty of tried-and-true horror hallmarks--an eerie, seemingly sentient doll and a babbling crazy girl smearing on uneven lipstick among them. Readers will need to have read the earlier installments of the series, as this picks up right where Envy (2012) left off, with protagonist Em struggling both against her own seeming transformation into something evil and between two guys--a hard-drinking stereotypical bad boy but sensitive musician named Crow and her childhood best friend and literal boy next door, JD. Those looking for atmospheric and enjoyably spooky thrills will find plenty to like, but it seems to take JD in particular an awfully long time to work out what's really going on. However, the pacing does eventually pick up in the novel's final chapters, and fans of the first two will be certain to devour this. Fun to be sure, but also a case where shorter might have been sweeter--and more suspenseful. (Horror. 12 & up)