Fan Casting "Onyx Storm" by Rebecca Yarros

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Join me this week to welcome back my childhood bestie, Super Mom, & nearly certified Doula, Kjerstin Scheyer as we fan cast, recap, rant, and...well rant again, about the 2025 release, "Onyx Storm"; Book 3 of The Empyrean Series by Rebecca Yarros!

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*EPISODE CONTAINS SERIES SPOILERS!!!*

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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.

Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Even if it means keeping a secret so big, it could destroy everything. They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And they need the one thing only Violet can find—the truth. But a storm is coming...and not everyone can survive its wrath.

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Onyx Storm is the third book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series, which is planned to include five books. 

Large scale bookstores such as Barnes and Nobel & Books A Million held events to celebrate the book's widely anticipated release. Some readers attended in full cosplay of their favorite characters-- much like the days we (me) Millennials would attend release parties for Harry Potter & Twilight. A good sign for the Empyrean series's potential as a franchise!

In the first week following its publication, Onyx Storm sold 2.7 million copies, surpassing any other adult novel in the previous 20 years.

Yarros announced a book tour, that begin in LA on January 20, 2025, and ended in Denver on February 2. On thour, many questions were posed about the ending and the upcoming TV adaption, including who she would want cast as Violet and Xaden. Yarros declined to comment her choices and believe the creative team know what they are doing. Heres hoping!

Yarros is still set to executive produce the series with Liz Pelletier, the founder of Entangled Publishing, and Liz Raposo, the president of Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. Yarros is not set to have any writing credits in the series and the series has yet to announce a cast. 

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