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Svart storm by Rebecca Yarros

907 reviews

colwaldo76's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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marikiwi_19's review against another edition

4.25

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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amylangdown_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So many mysteries in this book, so much joining-the-dots and making sense of things from books 1&2. I love the characters and their relationships - the love and the friendships are what make this book so lovable. I love how much more we now know about the magic and the dragons in this universe - but yet still have so many questions!

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aepperson's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ash_wednesday_reads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Some of the quirky writing of this series (the very contemporary mannerisms and language that just doesn’t seem to match this world) bothered me less this time, maybe I’m just used to the vibe now. I liked the departure from the setting of the first two books, the new worlds were fun to explore.

While I love a long book, it seems like there is too much here. Keeping the main conflict going during what felt like AGES of side quests started to wear thin. Still a fun read, but would have made more sense as 2 books at least. Starting to get a bit repetitive though, hoping that the next book shakes up the pattern a bit.

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desana75's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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cataclysm_plagg's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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guccishoestrings's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Well here we go again, this series is like a roller coaster that you you can't get off and never stops. Again, the book starts pretty much right off were the last one ends, so lets get to the good, the bad, and the hilarious sections.

The Good:

Like many others have said, the middle part of the book is great. The series did need some worldbuilding and still kind of does. But, added worldbuilding is always a plus in my book.
This could be good or bad but the named venin could be interesting characters or just completely flop.
Ridoc and his depression (if you know, you know)
Also, Ridoc is more than a comedic relief and becomes more of a friend to violet than the relagated class clown he was in the first two books.
Dain getting getting slapped
Aaric replacing Halden, Halden is an ass and its funny when stuff happens to him but Aaric needs more time to shine.
Swayer and Jessinia, it was bound to happen sometime.
Saved the best for last, Broccoli

The Bad:

As said in the good section, the middle of the book was good but the beginning and end were terrible.
The twist at the end
With Violet waking up with a ring on her hand and no memories..... was just really freakin stupid.
Xaden's mom reveal was massively underwhelming, especially since the build up was happening for awhile.
Bodhi again gets relegated to a background character and just a replacement for Xaden whenever he's off doing Xaden things. Honestly, Rebecca must have something against him.
Most characters like Imogen, Bodhi, Rhi, Aaric and others do not really get any development which is a bummer since they were on an adventure together and was a perfect time for something that to happen.
Switching POV's section really killed the pacing in the climax and only had two notable things that happened,
Imogen's second signet and Quinn's death.
Xaden and Violet's relationship feels like it kind of stagnated a little bit in this story, obviously there were some reasons for it to not develop as much as it did in the first two books, but it felt like it didn't really improve much if at all.

The Hilarious:

Ridoc of course is him usual self most of the time.
The slap.
Mira kicks a couple balls.
of course the cringy sex scenes and dialogue are here.

This is easily the weakest book of the three and I can see this book chasing a lot of readers away as the pacing changed from a bunch of sex crazed young adults fighting a war that they are getting their asses kicked in too an upbeat adventure and back to fighting a war and getting their ass kicked kind of unappealing. I will of course finish this series and look forward to it. But I hope Rebecca makes a btter 4th book or I am going to dread reading the 5th one.

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jfred13's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pretty disappointed. The 2nd book had a predictable ending and was not as good as the first, but the first was so good, I let it slide. But this book is essentially a repeat of second, but this time they’re on an adventure quest introducing TONS of new worlds at a breakneck speed that I couldn’t keep track of them all individually when the quest gang returned to the mainland. Overall, it was the same formula, same cliffhanger ending, same repetitive descriptions of the spicy scenes and romance. Obviously, if we’ve all invested in the first 2 books, we’re gonna read the 3rd, and probably the remaining 2, but… meh.

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itskatie_k_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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