Alright, buckle in. Here’s my spoiler free take on Onyx Storm.

📕 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

📙 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: The Empyrean series. Book 3.

📗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: E-book on Kindle

📘 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: Fantasy romance

🌟 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: When I step back out of the emotion of Onyx Storm, I can objectively say it was an incredible book. It was well written. I got character development and relationship development from all the characters. I got answers to some key questions. My heart was in my throat for half of the book and then absolutely decimated at the end.

For book three of a five book series, where we are halfway through essentially, I feel like we’re right where we need to be.

But all that being said, the emotion and the unanswered questions are going to leave a lot of people feeling uneasy. And there are a lot of readers of this series who are new to fantasy romance or fantasy in general that aren’t going to like that icky feeling in their chest, where they don’t see a clear answer in front of them.

For every one question this book answered, it begged us to ask three more. The last two chapters, I wrote down 23 things I need answers to. It’s par for the course for where we are at in the journey, but it left me and I’m sure others emotionally fried.

I’ll say this. It’s clear Rebecca Yarros knows EXACTLY what she’s doing here. Every single word serves a purpose - from character moments to the chapter missives to sentences with double meaning. She’s leading us, and I’ll follow to the very end.

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  

𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹: 3/5 🌶🌶🌶