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Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Murder, War
Moderate: Chronic illness
It was nice to see a significant amount world building in this installment. But, there is still a lot that doesn't make sense with the story that has been established. Violet is just so incredibly slow to put things/ideas together while simultaneously being "smarter" than everyone else because of her passion for scribe studies.
It also continues to bother me that the characters a written sooo YA & use modern slang in this sort of medieval world. And the smut! *eye roll* I think I would enjoy this series SIGNIFICANTLY more if it was just fully YA & PG-13. The smut is just so so cringe to me... and I find myself wanting to fast forward through it to just get back to the world conflicts.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Torture, Medical trauma, Death of parent
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War
Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Why? How? Where? Who? I'm going insane.
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Minor: Child death
Graphic: Death, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Medical trauma, War
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Medical trauma
Reading Onyx Storm puts me in the mind of the Divergent Series, in the way that Insurgent was almost entirely unnecessary and the series could have been told entirely with just Divergent and Allegiant. I’m thinking this may have been a better approach with the Empyrean series.
What I’m getting at is…Empyrean is probably better suited to be a trilogy than a 5 book series because right now it feels like we’re in the filler anime arc.
I mean, we have so many fucking characters and such a large world that’s been unexplored in the Empyrean saga. Do we have to spend every book with Violet if it’s going to slow the story down as much as it did in this book?
I don’t care for Mira much, but we could have spent this book with Mira or Garrick or Imogene instead. There are many strong characters that could serve more plot than a cute little 300 page journey looking for a new kind of dragon that conveniently plays Deus Ex Machina at the last moment after they supposedly rejected Violet and her entire effort and still left the story nearly as unresolved as it was when it Iron Flame ended.
But, that’s just, like, my opinion man…
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, War
Moderate: Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism