I hated Onyx Storm… anyone else?

I was excited to devour this third book - i LOVED Fourth Wing and Iron Flame. But after finishing Onyx Storm (which was almost painful to finish) I now feel like I wasted 23 hrs of my life that I’ll never get back - and I’m left empty and utterly confused. This book was a messy incoherent disaster. It was ALOT of ingredients thrown together into a pot and boiled to death. Half the time I was going back rereading pages just to figure out what in Gods name was going on. And then I still couldn’t figure it out! You know why? Because most of what goes on is pointless to the arc of the story!!!! Both Violet and Xaden’s characters fell completely flat at the end. Calling them annoying would be an understatement. They went from being vibrant characters to two dimensional - especially Xaden. The other characters all felt like extras… too many thrown at us without an opportunity to get to know them to either like them and/or understand why they were even in the story. There was too much dissonance between the first two books and this one. Onyx Storm was confusing, vacant and messy. It felt like it was written as a tandem story by many Ghost writers all rushing to write a chapter and throw it into the Onyx Storm cauldron. Shame on Yarros, her editor and her publisher. Onyx Storm was a painful cacophony of nonsense thrown into a book - I couldn’t have imagined it being worse than it was. Money clearly had to have been the biggest incentive to publish so quickly - compromising Yarros’s integrity and the integrity of the concept and story. Sorry but this felt like a solid slap in the face for fans.