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Onyx Storm

Rebecca Yarros

4.13 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous emotional funny mysterious sad 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
dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

I can’t believe i have to wait years to see what happens next. 
adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring 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
adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This book had so much happening, hard on my little brain. And of course it ended on a cliff hanger!!! I have lost some love for Xaden, so many bad choices which is super disappointing. Still team Violet duh. I had a hard time following sometimes because there is so many characters! 

Still processing. Cannot wait for the next book.

I mean what the actual ****. I am ballongbone moment then and ending like that....

alright fiiine i'll keep reading the series 

Giving this 3 stars was a difficult decision and I feel like all the booktok girls are gonna come at me, but it is what it is.

⭐️loathed entirely
⭐️⭐️did not like it
⭐️⭐️⭐️it was ok
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️liked it
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️love it!

I definitely didn’t like this. It dragged on and took me a while to finish. It was just okay..

These books are a little bit overrated in my opinion. The first one was amazing but I think the author dropped the ball during the second and third and got way to in over her head. Or had AI write the book for her because this one seems to be by a totally different author than the first two.

I also read all three books back to back, and I was still confused by some names and places being named dropped. I feel like the author could’ve done a better job explaining who was who and the dragons names and the different towns and what not. Too many needless characters and locations mentioned.

The way this book ended is how I expected it to begin. So you’re telling me there’s gonna be a whole other fourth book where there’s no plot furthering? Just Xaden and Violet confessing their love every ten minutes while also bickering? And going on pointless side quests and having little political meetings, and getting mad at anyone who disagrees with them?

Only thing I liked about this book was Ridoc. I’m still confused on their magic laws and how it works. I feel like a lot is just skipped over. For example, lesser magic and runes. Did they go to class to learn this? They can just unlock doors with a flick of their wrists? And why is Violet so wishy washy? First she doesn’t want to keep secrets, then she’s head over heels for a man turning Venin and doesn’t listen to his warnings to stay away. Like girl, you’re so annoying. It’s giving, “he’s different when it’s just me and him I swear!” And Sex isn’t good without your magic? That’s just weird. Or it’s not as good as you thought it was and you need magic to makeup for it. Plus all the spicy scenes after that first armoire incident have been mid and repetitive.

I don’t see how this could be a five book series. I also think it’s just a money grab scheme if they’re already working on a live action television series when the book series isn’t even done. It’s like the author is just trying to push out anything even if it’s not good just to have content for people to get their hands on.

Some parts of the book felt rushed like we skipped important information and there were too many time jumps. And some parts were unnecessary and dragged on. The entire book was honestly way too predictable too.

I just feel like a whole lot of nothing happened.
slow-paced