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A review by bobinsbooknook
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Having stormed through this book - pun intended - over the last 2 nights I feel I’ve had enough time to process the book without the shock ending completely skewing my review of the entire book.
I did find this book to have a much slower start than the previous books in the series. The plot for me didn’t really pick up until the 50% mark. The first half didn’t really move the plot in any significant way for me and just seemed to be solely focused on the narrative between characters and using various tangents to set up “quests” for the second part of the book which left me feeling a bit disengaged in places.
That being said, once I hit that half way point, I became hooked! Like any good fantasy book, the use of the test & trials trope created some great plot twists and ‘close-save’ moments which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Whilst I wouldn’t say there was any super strong development in the characters - as they felt very consistent in their behaviours throughout the book - I did enjoy how this didn’t prevent the plot from taking unexpected twists.
I will say that this book definitely seemed to have a slight resemblance to ACOMAF by Sarah J Maas - more in creative inspiration that any duplication - but I did mean I couldn’t help in places but compare the two in terms of execution.
Overall a good read with some fantastic plot points and twists which I really enjoyed. There is a lot of back story and lore in here which has definitely been added in to prep for the next instalment in the series.
That being said the slower start to actually get into many any progress with the “quests” themselves in the first half of this book did impact my enjoyment of the book as a whole though doesn’t leave me any less excited for the next instalment.
I did find this book to have a much slower start than the previous books in the series. The plot for me didn’t really pick up until the 50% mark. The first half didn’t really move the plot in any significant way for me and just seemed to be solely focused on the narrative between characters and using various tangents to set up “quests” for the second part of the book which left me feeling a bit disengaged in places.
That being said, once I hit that half way point, I became hooked! Like any good fantasy book, the use of the test & trials trope created some great plot twists and ‘close-save’ moments which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Whilst I wouldn’t say there was any super strong development in the characters - as they felt very consistent in their behaviours throughout the book - I did enjoy how this didn’t prevent the plot from taking unexpected twists.
I will say that this book definitely seemed to have a slight resemblance to ACOMAF by Sarah J Maas - more in creative inspiration that any duplication - but I did mean I couldn’t help in places but compare the two in terms of execution.
Overall a good read with some fantastic plot points and twists which I really enjoyed. There is a lot of back story and lore in here which has definitely been added in to prep for the next instalment in the series.
That being said the slower start to actually get into many any progress with the “quests” themselves in the first half of this book did impact my enjoyment of the book as a whole though doesn’t leave me any less excited for the next instalment.