I just began Onyx Storm and I already want to put it down.

I've been annoyed with Violet since the start of Iron Flame and it's really starting to get to me. She's supposedly so "smart" but still can't even channel her own power after like 1.5k pages? So "smart" but her common sense is literally non-existent. Xaden turned venin, oh no!! But he loves me and still gets to my bed so HE'S THE SAME GUYS! WE HAVE THE TRUST HIM. THIS IS XADEN. LIKE SERIOUSLY- Violet also has like a super weird matyr savior complex thing going on. She feels like she's the URGH one with ALL the responsibilities and kept sighing and being pouty when Andarna's demands weren't met. Girl- You are not a politician. Oh yeah? But guess WHO stopped the fight between Navarrian riders and the fliers? Me. I'm SUCH a mediator, SUCH a politician (wdym, my friends said so hehe). Yeah, and my sister Mira is worried I will lose my life. WHAT? I won't, duh. I'll definitely find the 7th breed that is practically ancient and unheard of, and restore WORLD PEACE. YEAH.

Violet is supposed to be this super SMART and cunning rider who harnessed the storm but I can imagine her in a children's storybook. Mary Sue's little lamb is hurt, oh no!! The disease can only be cured by a magical elixir created by a Jungle Monster. Mary Sue travels half the diameter of Earth and met a group of animal friends who were helped by her on her way, and wants to help her! She meets the Jungle Monster and spreaded love - the greatest power in the world - to him and successfully gets the elixir back to her little lamb. She's called the hero and lives a great, big, beautiful life.

I hate that she is made to seem so special. "The last time a shadow wielder and a lightning wielder lived in the same time period, they managed to wipe out all the venin in the Great Barren...." "What? Me and Xaden are the first of our signets to live simultaneously in 600 hundred years?"pFFFFFFTTT. Of course.