Review by isabellemay14 - Onyx Storm

isabellemay14 's review for:

Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious 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

I felt like this book had SO much going on that a lot of things that could have been really amazing just fell kind of flat for me. The expanded world building was so fun and interesting, but we hardly got to spend any real time in any one place to actually feel immersed or connected to it. Some side characters really gained more depth to them, while others seemed like such an afterthought that I forgot they were even there. The mysteries that I loved to theorize about in the earlier books felt convoluted; there’s just so many of them and you receive so few answers that it just feels unsatisfactory. So many new ideas and mysteries were introduced that felt disconnected from the earlier books, like it was just becoming unnecessarily complicated. The structure of this book followed the structure of the first two SO closely that it never gave me the same sense of adventure and tension that I loved in the earlier books, since it felt like I had read it all before. Even the writing itself didn’t feel as quality. The series has always relied heavily on dialogue, which in earlier books felt fast paced and engaging, but this one felt so dialogue heavy that I never felt really immersed in the actual settings it was taking place in, which was especially challenging when there were so many new settings being introduced. All of that being said, I will absolutely be reading the rest of the series.

Content Warnings