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A review by holdenwunders_
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
3.0
People are so weird about this book tbh. This is Gen Z’s Twilight, it’s Maze Runner, it’s Divergent and it does exactly what it should do. I don’t expect much out of a book like this. It isn’t high fantasy so I don’t expect that world building to be super succinct. It’s not literary fiction so I don’t expect it to be particularly moving. I do expect it to entertain me with dragons and f*cking and it did just that.
I think my biggest gripe about it, besides the reader responses picking it apart (go read other books) is the POV shifts at the end. Yarros never does this and it felt like such a cop out because she didn’t know how to get across what was happening elsewhere through Violets POV. She has been our POV for THREE books but suddenly it switches in the last 50 pages to multiple people? I know the writing isn’t something I expect a lot out of but it felt like such an unbelievable cop out. If she had done it the entire time, it would’ve been interesting, but it was clear she just didn’t know how to execute the vision.
I think my biggest gripe about it, besides the reader responses picking it apart (go read other books) is the POV shifts at the end. Yarros never does this and it felt like such a cop out because she didn’t know how to get across what was happening elsewhere through Violets POV. She has been our POV for THREE books but suddenly it switches in the last 50 pages to multiple people? I know the writing isn’t something I expect a lot out of but it felt like such an unbelievable cop out. If she had done it the entire time, it would’ve been interesting, but it was clear she just didn’t know how to execute the vision.