This book has been a long time coming. With Death's Mistress published back in 2010, it's been quite awhile since we've seen what Dory is up to. The events of Fury's Kiss take place a few weeks after the end of Death's Mistress. Dory has agreed to work with the Senate during the impending war. The book opens with Dory not knowing who or where she is, but needing the rescuing of one Louis-Caesar. From hee the story jumps right off. By reading this book, I can almost see why it takes Karen Chance so long in between books. This book is full of twists and turns. Whereas the Cassie Palmer series has the time-travel aspect going for it, the Dorina books seem to have a mind-speak kind of thing going on which Chance tackles very well. The intricaces of going back and forth is done really well. 
 With a big and important chunk of information missing from Dory's memory the mystery plot thickens. What did they want with Dory? And who are they in the first place? This book is definitely a culmination of events that have been going on since the first book in the series Midnight's Daughter. I don't think it could be a book read alone. 
 I continue to really like Dory, almost more so than Cassie. She a great combination of toughness and vulnerability. Even though she probably would never admit it, she has a godd heart for those she cares about, and those she deems worthy. 
 I like the growing relationship between her and Mircea. In Midnight's Daughter things between them are tense to say the least, but we always got the sense that there was more behind that whole story. We got more glimpses and information in Death's Mistress and Fury's Kiss is almost the penultimate of where their relationship has been and where, hopefully, it will go. I still do like Mircea more in Dory's story than in Cassie's. I think I prefer him as the father figure than lover. Karen Chance does her fans proud with giving us a little nod to the Cassie books in a particular scene in this book. Hopefully, she'll continue to throw more of those at us in future books. 
 The romantic relationship between Dory and Louis-Caesar is another that I really like. They started out as unwanted partners and now their feelings have grown. I think Chance did a good job of not rushing a relationship between these two and also not letting it take too long to manifest either. Dory had to figure out more of who she was before she could let her heart decide who to be with. Her whole life she's been an outcast and isn't used to someone actually caring for her. Her Louis-Caesar's part, I like that he's been patient. I guess it's a characteristic of a vampire, a group that can live forever knows how to be patient. He gives her space and time to figure out her feelings, but he definitely doesn't let her off the hook with how he feels about her. I like that Dory is able to come to terms with someone caring about her. She might try to talk it down a bit, but in the end she realizes it's about what she wants and that's all that should matter. 
 The only thing I will complain about is that I'm finished. I tried to read the book slowly, but now I'm sad that I have no other Dory or Cassie book to read. Hopefully Karen Chance won't take so long between Dory and Cassie books in the future. Until Then!