Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (Part 2)

Book Talk for BookTok

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Arts, Books

4.9 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Welcome to Spring Book Club! Best friends Jac and Amy conduct a weekly literary analysis on popular Romantasy books. This week, they discuss Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. This is part 2 of this week's episode. They use their combined 13 years of literary academic training to analyze and give voice to reasons why you may love or hate today's popular books. They embrace and respect modern fantasy, romance, and romantasy books written by women. And so, it is in their nature to analyze these books as you would any other novel you might have discussed in school. Spring Book Club Roster: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros / Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana / Quicksilver by Cali Hart / Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee / A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle Jensen / We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal / Powerless by Lauren Robers / The Vampire's Bargain by Jasmine Walt What's to come? Stick around when we're done with Book Club! We'll be doing a 10-part literary analysis on Sarah J. Maas' Crown of Midnight. Sponsors: Stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to Zocdoc.com/BOOKTALK to find and instantly book a top-rated doctor today! Let's keep the conversation going! Submit your thoughts to our form on our website (https://booktalkforbooktok.com/) for a chance to have your thoughts discussed during a future mini-episode, or on a Patreon-exclusive episode. Want to support the show? Follow us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/booktalkforbooktok Or check out our merch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/booktalkforbooktok Follow us! Instagram: @BookTalkForBookTok TikTok: @BookTalkForBookTok YouTube: @BookTalkForBookTok For all other information, visit our website https://booktalkforbooktok.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.8	Welcome to Book Talk for Book Talk with Jack and Amy, a literary podcast where we deep dive into the writings of your favorite novels.
1:19.7	This spring, we're hosting a book club while we prepare our 10-part literary analysis of Sarah J. Mass's Crown of Midnight.
1:20.6	This is Jack.
1:25.3	And I'm Amy, and each week we'll discuss one book from our spring book club roster.
1:28.0	By using our literary background, we'll provide our flash analysis of each book, as well as discuss listener thoughts. This is part two of this
1:32.5	week's episode where we're discussing Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yaris. And we're back. And we're back.
1:38.4	So now I'm going to read another comment. They say, gosh, I've been waiting. I've been waiting for
1:42.8	this. Overall, this book felt like it was going places and doing things that ultimately have no consequences. I hope I'm wrong and everything will end up being important, but I don't have faith in Rebecca to pull it off at this point. I also don't get why we needed to meet Zaden's mom. I was so hoping she would come back during the final battle and help her son. But overall,
2:02.7	the storyline ended up being useless. Yeah, I completely agree. We're not going to know for two more
2:07.5	books if this book was worth anything. And that feels like too long for me to wait to decide if this is
2:14.9	the, if this was the best book in the series. You know what I mean? Like,
2:18.4	it does feel like they're set up. I, I do believe that euros can be good at set up,
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