Violet Sorrengail, blink twice if you need help

"Is it toxic? Maybe. Is it us? Absolutely." THE LOG on Rebecca Yarros's "Onyx Storm" with spoilers.

I opt in to romantasy like a Christmas-and-Easter Christian. I tap into the notable events with good-natured cheer, and I (try to) limit my skepticism to escape to a younger, more innocent mental landscape.

But after the third and latest installment in Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean Series, also known as the Fourth Wing books, I am done with this series.

I won’t be reading the fourth, fifth, or seventeenth book about Violet Sorrengail and Xaden Riorson, because Yarros either has lost track of her characters or is too afraid to push her characters into the psychological deep end, where something honest might happen.

Down with Xaden and the FOURTH WING series

fan art of Violet and Xaden (credit: @sampeiarts)

Violet Sorrengail, the reluctant dragon rider whose combination of nepotism, discipline, and good timing turned her into one of the most powerful dragon riders of her generation, is exceptional.

Despite her connective tissue disorder putting her at risk for dislocated joints and broken bones, …