"Fourth Wing", great book. A+ "Iron Flame", good book, first half A, slipping down in the second half of the book to maybe a B but then "Onyx Storm"… Apparently the fasted selling book but what a disappointment. I am about 20% in and this is one of the few books I am contemplating not finishing. Violet: Her character reads like she's an annoying teenager, going through puberty. I don't get her story line either: On the one hand she does all kinds of things 'illegally' and being the hero and saves the world… on the flip side she lets herself be bullied around by others. Why'd she let her superiors at Basgiath bully her into doing things she doesn't want? Just leave, they need her more than she needs them? It makes no sense to me. Then people get killed left and right, but Jack Barlowe is kept alive. Why? Then the endless, pointless conversations between characters…riders, flyers, Brennan, Mira, Xaden… The book could be 1/3 the length if it just stuck to the main plot….
Then there's supposedly a book 4 and 5 coming… I don't know if I have it in me to finish. Anyone else?
by FoggyBottom4u
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I didn’t even make it to Iron Flame.
This was my first DNF in years.
Hearsay: It was supposed to be 3 books, but her publisher wants to cash in and has pushed to make it 5.
What else do we expect from smuttok books?
I liked it more than Iron Flame which was Xaden and Violet having the same fight over and over for 800 pages. But it was not great. I also dislike Yarros also has to resort to cliffhanger endings to get people to read the next book in the series
I was extremely disappointed. The book was way too long and I got really bored with it. I will not be reading any more of her works.