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Marillier has described Stasya as a character she views as being on the autism spectrum, although the world of the novel doesn't have any language through which to identify her in those terms. This understanding gives particular weight to Stasya’s isolation and to the assumptions other people make about her. Her difference is never treated as a flaw awaiting correction.

Onyx Storm is the first Empyrean novel that convinced me Rebecca Yarros had moved beyond the sheer momentum of her premise and begun exploring the more interesting possibilities within the world she created.

Every genre has its landmark novels. The books that quietly reshape everything that follows. Readers discover them decades later, only to wonder why they feel so familiar, forgetting that they're familiar because generations of writers have been borrowing from them ever since. Raymond E. Feist's Magician is one of those books.