The Onyx Hourglass (Queens Of Fantasy Saga #5)

The Onyx Hourglass is the second novel in Sephy’s trilogy, and while I enjoyed it very much, it didn’t hold me quite as captive as the Opal Blade. There was a lot of wishy-washiness with Sephy, after her resurrection that kind of dragged on, but I expect that will improve in the final book of the trilogy. I also am not a big fan of Pandora’s chapters- the descriptions of her domain are just gross- spiders and phobias and blood and guts everywhere. She’s the least interesting character in the trilogy- thankfully, this book is full of Sephy, Xion, Haedes (my personal favorite,) Luce, and Thane. And Jules gets even more personality, which I loved.

I’m glad to be finished with this novel, which, as per usual with most second novels in a trilogy, I feel was a lot of set up for the third book. I think it was a necessary book, but it felt like a bit of a slog at times at close to 500 pages.

The writing was very well done, I enjoy Kristy’s style, it reminds me a lot of the OG urban fantasy writers like Karen Marie Moning or even JR Ward (before she expanded BDB too far.) I giggled out loud more than once at Haedes’ antics or Sephy’s sass.

I’m going to do a quick palette cleanse and read a psychological thriller as I’ve read a ton of fantasy thus far this year, and then I look forward to jumping back into the final book in this trilogy.

4 stars because I’d definitely recommend this book, even though I probably wouldn’t re-read it.