Author
Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros writes fantasy and romantasy. We've read and reviewed 4 of Rebecca Yarros's books, including Iron Flame and The Things We Leave Unfinished, each scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
New from Rebecca Yarros: Threshing Day, releasing September 2026.
Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing throws brittle-boned Violet Sorrengail into a war college where dragons incinerate the riders they refuse to carry, and her general mother has removed every exit. The romantasy phenomenon that launched the Empyrean series turns out to run on genuine tension: survival math first, slow-burning enemies-to-lovers second.
The Things We Leave Unfinished
by Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros pairs a woman rebuilding her life at her late great-grandmother's Colorado estate with the manuscript of that great-grandmother's unfinished, scandalous novel, and lets both stories unravel at once.
Onyx Storm
by Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros sends Violet Sorrengail off the map in Onyx Storm, the third Empyrean novel, trading Basgiath's war-college politics for an island-hopping hunt for allies. It's maximalist romantasy: dragons, brittle treaties, an ache between Violet and Xaden that has stopped being about whether they want each other, and a final act that goes off like a bomb.
Iron Flame
by Rebecca Yarros
The Empyrean's second book sends Violet Sorrengail back to Basgiath War College under a commandant who has built the whole year around breaking her, with Xaden posted elsewhere and the truth between them going unsaid. Rebecca Yarros writes a slower burn than Fourth Wing and then detonates it: bigger world, higher stakes, a final chapter that resets the series.