Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm is the fastest-selling adult novel in the past 20 years. The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week and is topping every bestseller list. The three novels, part of Yarros’ planned five-book Empyrean series, have sold more than 12 million print, e-books, and audiobooks in the United States, according to her publisher, Entangled.

Yarros now holds the top three spots on The New York Times’s hardcover best-seller list, an incredible achievement for an adult fiction series. On Thursday, her series also claimed the top three spots on Amazon’s “most sold” fiction list.

The reviews are generally positive, but Onyx Storm has deeply confused many readers. Some of that seems unintentional; the first few chapters are packed with new characters, knotty political conflicts, and unfamiliar locations that don’t appear on the map. (Is Lewellen a person or a place? Turns out, both!) However, the ending was cryptic, as Yarros loves a shocking cliffhanger. “I already know what it is before I start the book and drive for it with glee,” she told Good Morning America.

It’s wild. I’m humbled by it. It’s wild. I don’t think it’s registered,” Yarros told Variety in the middle of her whirlwind tour of sold-out Q&As and morning-show appearances to promote the book, “I’ll probably burst into tears at home when I’m in real life with my children and husband. But right now, it’s like two different segments of my life.”

Onyx Storm (The Empyrean Book 3) After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows 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. $14.99 Buy on Amazon
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