I will preface this by saying, please if you love this series and love this book, do not take personal offense by this review. This is just my opinion and my takeaways from my experience. If you loved this book, consider me happy for you and don’t let me sway or offend you!

I don’t believe I have any spoilers within this review, but please take caution anyways if you did not complete the book.

That being said, I’m unfortunately pretty disappointed with Onyx Storm. Not only did I find it relatively boring, but I wasn’t drawn in by the characters either. Something about this book just felt, lacking to me. Book 1, I absolutely adored the dragons, reading about them, and their personalities. Book 3, didn’t satisfy the same way.

This all just started to feel incredibly repetitive to me as well. Specifically the characters. I honestly got tired of reading about Violet and Xaden questioning their love to each other, reiterating their love for each other, and why are they constantly withholding sex from each other? I think each book so far has contained some version of this and I find it worn-out. Their relationship is so dramatic yet I don’t feel as though it’s well developed at all. It was too juvenile for my personal liking. I’m sure if you look through my highlights and notes on this book, you’ll see examples. The lightning show while they have sex every time just had me rolling my eyes.

This book was over 500 pages and I feel like most of it was unnecessary. I didn’t walk away from this book feeling like my life was changed or that a lot was accomplished within these 500 pages. I don’t think the plot made a lot of significant progress.

I won’t spoil the ending so don’t worry. But when I got to the end, I felt completely disconnected with the cliff-hanger. Maybe it’s because of the lack of connection that I felt to Book 3 but I was completely unphased by the ending. I’m thinking this might be the last book I read of this series. I just found out that there’s supposed to be 2 more books but this series has lost its steam. I guess I’ll see how I feel later, but I currently don’t feel compelled enough about this story or these characters anymore to continue reading to see how it turns out for them all.

I’ll admit some fault here as I feel like I did forget some of the side characters which affected my connection to them. But I also didn’t enjoy Iron Flame enough to warrant a reread before diving into Onyx Storm.

The dragons were still the best part, but I felt underwhelmed with them in this book as well. I really hoped that I would like this more than I did.