What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller

Allen & Unwin
Oct 17
3 min read

Learn more about What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller.

What Fury Brings is bestselling YA Fantasy author Tricia Levenseller's adult romantasy debut - and she certainly doesn't pull any punches!

In this spicy, action-packed story we find ourselves in a country ruled by women. If our protagonist Olerra wants to take her place on the throne, she must steal herself a husband from a rival kingdom. She has her sights set on a young prince known for being docile, but imagine her surprise when she discovers... she's taken the wrong prince.

Learn more about Tricia's thought process behind writing this sexy, empowering romantasy below AND take a look at the gorgeous map design of Torateeria, where the story takes place.

This is not a feminist novel.

It is a revenge novel.

Thank you so much for picking up my first romantasy for adults! However, if you’re under the age of eighteen or my father, then this story is not for you. Please come back later! Unless you’re my father, in which case, this book is still not for you.

What Fury Brings contains scenes of graphic sexual content, graphic language, and graphic violence. If you’re wondering what graphic violence means, let me share that there is a penis guillotine in the novel that is used on rapists.

The society I’ve created is a reflection of our own but reversed. What this means is that all the atrocities committed against women over the course of history have actually been committed against men. Men cannot hold property. Any money they receive belongs to their wives. Men can be married off as soon as they’re old enough to perform. Men are the weaker sex. Men should be seen and not heard. Men should smile and flex whenever a woman looks at them. Only men can be punished for infidelity.

Please note that this is not what I think the world would look like if women were in charge. Far from it. Rather, this book is flipping the tables to show a new lens through which to view our own history.

This book is called What Fury Brings, and it is all about my fury. Every time a man cut me off when I was speaking on a panel at a convention, every time I found out a male author with my same sales numbers was receiving higher advances than me, every time someone made me feel small for having a vagina instead of a penis, every time someone told me my only calling in life should be that of a wife and mother, every time anything at all sexist or misogynistic happened in our world—I worked on this book.

It is my fury mixed with my love of the romance genre. It is harsh and it is sexy and it has a happily ever after.

If you, like me, are angry, I think you might like this book. If you’re just here for the romance, I still think you’ll like this book. I’m incredibly proud of it. Still, please be aware of the following trigger warnings:

Mentions of sexual assault, but no scenes depicting it
Physical and emotional abuse by a parent and a spouse
Dubious consent
Kidnapping/bondage; sometimes sexual
The auctioning and selling of men
Sex workers
Mentions of grooming and underaged sexual partners
Animal deaths, including warhorses (shown inexplicitly on page) and a dog (which died in the past and is only referenced)
War themes and military violence
The aforementioned penis guillotine