Onyx Storm

After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it's impossible to know who to trust.

Publisher's blurb

Synopsis

The third instalment of the Empyrean series pushes Violet beyond the wards and off the continent entirely, in search of the Isles and the allies rumoured to live there. Yarros widens the map without losing the claustrophobic tension that made the first two books work: every alliance is provisional, every dragon has an opinion, and the cost of a single wrong choice is measured in people Violet loves. Political manoeuvring, venin incursions and a romance that has moved past will-they into the harder question of what two people owe each other in a war.

The editorial feature

What keeps the Empyrean books ahead of their many imitators is pace discipline. Yarros never lets a chapter close without moving something - a relationship, a threat, a piece of world logic. Onyx Storm is the volume where the series stops being a school story and becomes a war novel, and the tonal shift is handled with more control than readers may expect. The dragon voices remain the best comic relief in modern romantasy.

Book details

Genre

Fantasy

Released

21 January 2025

Publisher

Entangled: Red Tower Books

Featured on

21 January 2025

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