Onyx Storm

2.5/5
Eh. This was a very mixed feelings kinda book for me. While I liked some of the plot twists, most of the book seemed like the author trying to convince the reader what a great protagonist Violet is. I feel like a lot of the shit people said about Violet was kind of called out by other characters in this book, which I find pretty funny because it's not like a lot of them to be this direct and blunt towards Violet - another attempt by the author to show how good this book is.
On the other hand, one thing that annoyed me quite a bit was the way the author kept soft-launching side arcs throughout this book (and the series). It's like you cannot find out what the point of so many random characters or incidents are until you wait for a whole year for the next book in the series to come out and clarify it. It's frustrating as a reader to have authors spell everything out for us, but also annoying when they just vaguely mention things that never come up until several chapters later or in the sequel altogether.
This book was mostly just a check-it-off-my-tbr kind of book, and I think the next one will also be the same for me. Wouldn't recommend this book with enthusiasm to anyone haha.