Is Onyx Storm Clean? Profanity and Content Guide for the Audiobook

Danny Ellis 2 min read
Verdict
Heavy

A substantial share of the book gets filtered, and most listeners will choose to skip a meaningful amount.

23h 52m audiobook, 891 filtered segments, 8.4% of the runtime gets skipped at full strength.

Onyx Storm is the third book in Rebecca Yarros's dragon rider series, and if you have read the first two you know what you are getting into. This is the heaviest book in this group by a wide margin. Sexual content alone is about an hour and a half of audio across 91 moments, with 47 of them severe, and the longest single scene runs over fifteen minutes. Profanity is constant: 693 moments, 319 of them severe, adding up to almost eight minutes on its own. Violence adds another seventeen minutes, mostly moderate, and there are two longer romance scenes as well. Altogether two full hours come out of a twenty-four hour book, about eight percent. That sounds like a lot, and it is, but the dragons, the war, and the politics all survive the cuts, and the skips are tied to the actual audio rather than guessed at. For an adult who loves the world and wants it without the explicit scenes, I'd filter sexual content, romance, and profanity and leave violence on. Expect a handful of noticeable jumps in the middle of the book where the long scenes come out. I would not hand this to a teenager, filtered or not; the series is written for adults.

What we filtered

Category Mild Moderate Severe Total Time
Profanity 133 251 321 705 7m 55s
Blasphemy 14 5 1 20 24s
Violence 16 48 3 67 16m 53s
Sexual Content 22 22 47 91 1h 33m
Romance 0 1 1 2 2m 9s
Crude Humor 5 0 0 5 21s
Substance Use 1 0 0 1 8s

Profanity, by word: 270 f-ck, 171 sh-t, 71 d-mn, 69 -ss, 26 h-ll, and 80 more across 8 other words. (Word-level filters let you keep some words and skip others. Your library, your rules.)

The heaviest single chapter: Chapter 25, with 41 filtered segments across all categories.

The longest single scene we flagged runs about 15m 40s in Chapter 30 and falls under sexual content.

What you get back when you filter Onyx Storm on AudioHaven

  • Same book, same narrator (Jasmin Walker, Justis Bolding, Teddy Hamilton, Rebecca Soler), same story.
  • About 2h 1m of total filterable runtime, which you choose to keep or skip by category and by severity.
  • Real-time skipping. The book plays straight through, with a soft cut where each segment lives.

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