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Onyx Mist #2
Revolt
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Expected 4 Aug 26“He hoped she saw the final look in his eyes. His promise that, even if death loomed between them, Mora would never be rid of him. Not truly.”
The crown has fallen and Mora falls with it, trapped and cursed in the face of Dother’s death. Unable to escape what he’s done. Stuck with her new Keeper, Castellan, a King's Guard determined to use his wishes to save the Halflings, Mora stands begrudgingly by his side in the face of a revolt... and learns just how monstrous she can be.
In her dreams, she finds solace in the arms of a Fae she should despise, a male who soothes her broken spirit and stokes her desire. All while Zadriel wakes to her scent saturating his clothes. Yearning to be with her yet knowing they can never truly be together.
As Berwick burns, a greater evil looms, and Mora’s royal blood makes her a pawn in a new game of crowns and wishes. A game that demands far more than her cunning. Because saving the Halflings means sacrificing what little freedom she has left, and Mora can’t decide which is more desirable... duty or the ever-tempting lure of her rage.
Revolt is an adult dark fantasy romance and a prequel to Wish. It is intended to be read as the second book in the Onyx Mist Series. This series is full of magic, feminine rage, morally grey characters, and a swoon-worthy fated mates romance, with monstrous villains you’ll wish you could end yourself.
Please note Revolt contains mature themes, explicit content, and dark elements. It is intended for an adult audience; read at your own discretion. Trigger warnings are linked in the e-book. This is the second book in a dark fantasy romance series.
Kindle Edition
Expected publication August 4, 2026
About the author
Sara Flanagan
2 books294 followersSara Flanagan is a Canadian Fantasy Author who lives in the Maritimes with her wonderful husband, Adrien, and their adorable cat, Kiwi.
She writes dark fantasy romance and is obsessed with spicy enemies-to-lovers, fated mates stories. When she isn't writing or reading, you can find her painting, playing guitar, gaming or wandering the woods.
She is dying for you to meet Mora and Zadriel in her debut novel Wish, and hopes you love them just as much as she does.
She writes dark fantasy romance and is obsessed with spicy enemies-to-lovers, fated mates stories. When she isn't writing or reading, you can find her painting, playing guitar, gaming or wandering the woods.
She is dying for you to meet Mora and Zadriel in her debut novel Wish, and hopes you love them just as much as she does.
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April 26, 2026
A huge thank you to Sara for providing me with the incredible opportunity to be a beta reader for Revolt. I’m so grateful to be a part of the journey!
Revolt. Was. Beautiful. It’s a prequel to the events in Wish, helping us navigate and understand the events that unfold immediately after Cillian’s death. Wish’s primary timeline is 300 years after his death. One of the things I adored about Wish was Sara’s ability to provide us with two different timelines of events, and we are treated to this again in Revolt. Whilst we follow Zadriel and Mora in the wake of Dother’s death, we also get to see Aedlin’s journey between the death of her beloved Kaylan and Cillain’s death. Sara seamlessly weaves the two timelines together and they compliment each other so well, not only providing key answers to some of the questions raised in Wish, but also providing us a more in depth look at Aedlin’s POV. It really helps in making Aedlin so much more human and relatable, as our perspective of her in Wish is through Mora’s eyes, who understandably has very complex feelings about their last memories together.
If such a thing is even possible, I loved Revolt even more than Wish. Sara’s writing is so beautiful, her characters so real and relatable that you feel their emotions as your own. Mora’s rage and fear following the severe trauma she’s experienced at Cillian’s hands, and Zadriel’s shame and self loathing from his treatment and life under Brennan’s rule. In Revolt we see them when much of this trauma is much closer to the surface, especially for Mora, whose vulnerability is so raw and potent it broke my heart all over again.
One of the joys of Revolt is that we also get to see Mora and Zadriel find a comfort and safety in each other at such a critical time for them both. It’s on such a subconscious level where they feel there are no consequences that they just allow themselves to be together as their mate bond should be, connecting the two of them so effortlessly that their interactions were such a genuine joy to read and watch develop.
Whilst I’m avoiding crucial spoilers, I also just felt that Revolt just gave me such an improved understanding of the stunning and complex world Sara has created. So many puzzle pieces slot into place and there were many ‘OH THAT’S WHY’ moments! The lore, the world, the magic, the plot, everything is just constructed so carefully and you get to these conclusions and reveals right at the point where Sara wants you to and although it must have taken so much hard work on her part to make it work, as a reader, we’re able to connect the dots and build on everything at the right pace.
Of course, Sara still has many tricks up her sleeves and as you read, there are more questions that you want answers for and more puzzles to solve! Revolt is an absolute masterpiece and Mora continues to be one of my favourite ever FMCs - she’s beautiful, kind and funny, yet also flawed and cruel. She’s a survivor. She’s experienced such terrible trauma but she still holds onto pieces of her humanity. Still feels remorseful. Ever defiant in the face of a man that seeks to break and own her. How could I not love her?! If anything, Revolt has only tightened the grip that Mora and her story has on my heart and soul and I’m never letting her go.
Revolt. Was. Beautiful. It’s a prequel to the events in Wish, helping us navigate and understand the events that unfold immediately after Cillian’s death. Wish’s primary timeline is 300 years after his death. One of the things I adored about Wish was Sara’s ability to provide us with two different timelines of events, and we are treated to this again in Revolt. Whilst we follow Zadriel and Mora in the wake of Dother’s death, we also get to see Aedlin’s journey between the death of her beloved Kaylan and Cillain’s death. Sara seamlessly weaves the two timelines together and they compliment each other so well, not only providing key answers to some of the questions raised in Wish, but also providing us a more in depth look at Aedlin’s POV. It really helps in making Aedlin so much more human and relatable, as our perspective of her in Wish is through Mora’s eyes, who understandably has very complex feelings about their last memories together.
If such a thing is even possible, I loved Revolt even more than Wish. Sara’s writing is so beautiful, her characters so real and relatable that you feel their emotions as your own. Mora’s rage and fear following the severe trauma she’s experienced at Cillian’s hands, and Zadriel’s shame and self loathing from his treatment and life under Brennan’s rule. In Revolt we see them when much of this trauma is much closer to the surface, especially for Mora, whose vulnerability is so raw and potent it broke my heart all over again.
One of the joys of Revolt is that we also get to see Mora and Zadriel find a comfort and safety in each other at such a critical time for them both. It’s on such a subconscious level where they feel there are no consequences that they just allow themselves to be together as their mate bond should be, connecting the two of them so effortlessly that their interactions were such a genuine joy to read and watch develop.
Whilst I’m avoiding crucial spoilers, I also just felt that Revolt just gave me such an improved understanding of the stunning and complex world Sara has created. So many puzzle pieces slot into place and there were many ‘OH THAT’S WHY’ moments! The lore, the world, the magic, the plot, everything is just constructed so carefully and you get to these conclusions and reveals right at the point where Sara wants you to and although it must have taken so much hard work on her part to make it work, as a reader, we’re able to connect the dots and build on everything at the right pace.
Of course, Sara still has many tricks up her sleeves and as you read, there are more questions that you want answers for and more puzzles to solve! Revolt is an absolute masterpiece and Mora continues to be one of my favourite ever FMCs - she’s beautiful, kind and funny, yet also flawed and cruel. She’s a survivor. She’s experienced such terrible trauma but she still holds onto pieces of her humanity. Still feels remorseful. Ever defiant in the face of a man that seeks to break and own her. How could I not love her?! If anything, Revolt has only tightened the grip that Mora and her story has on my heart and soul and I’m never letting her go.
June 22, 2026
✨ BETA READ ✨
I ate Wish up like a demon, spamming @sara DMs with my anguish, pain and female rage non stop for days and days and days, and clearly that worked a treat because she asked me to Beta read Revolt once I’d finished which is an honour beyond all honours.
Revolt picks up immediately in the aftermath of Mora’s defining moment from Wish, rather than at the conclusion of Wish itself, affording us a rare opportunity to experience the trauma that she and Zadriel both experienced before their hearts found one another, as if predestined. That is to say, Revolt is yet another opportunity for Sara to paint a portrait of complex characters, who have been controlled, consumed and twisted until they’re beyond recognition from the people they believed themselves to be, put them through hell, and cut me deep in the process - and I enjoyed every second of it so I suppose that makes me the problem. Whilst that may sound heavy, and believe me it is, there are moments of beauty, magic and romance scattered amongst these pages like gold dust; moments where Mora and Zadriel find solace in one another in the space between their nightmares, and realise that their homes, now destroyed, exist with each other, and not in the ashes bricks, and dust, leaves and trees.
Revolt is a staggering feat, a breathtaking achievement from Flanagan and a nuanced analysis of trauma, healing, self loathing and fear, wrapped in a story of true love that will beat your heart bloody in the telling of it.
I ate Wish up like a demon, spamming @sara DMs with my anguish, pain and female rage non stop for days and days and days, and clearly that worked a treat because she asked me to Beta read Revolt once I’d finished which is an honour beyond all honours.
Revolt picks up immediately in the aftermath of Mora’s defining moment from Wish, rather than at the conclusion of Wish itself, affording us a rare opportunity to experience the trauma that she and Zadriel both experienced before their hearts found one another, as if predestined. That is to say, Revolt is yet another opportunity for Sara to paint a portrait of complex characters, who have been controlled, consumed and twisted until they’re beyond recognition from the people they believed themselves to be, put them through hell, and cut me deep in the process - and I enjoyed every second of it so I suppose that makes me the problem. Whilst that may sound heavy, and believe me it is, there are moments of beauty, magic and romance scattered amongst these pages like gold dust; moments where Mora and Zadriel find solace in one another in the space between their nightmares, and realise that their homes, now destroyed, exist with each other, and not in the ashes bricks, and dust, leaves and trees.
Revolt is a staggering feat, a breathtaking achievement from Flanagan and a nuanced analysis of trauma, healing, self loathing and fear, wrapped in a story of true love that will beat your heart bloody in the telling of it.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Revolt has added to much depth to the story. I understand the world and the characters so much more. I fell in love wuth characters and hated others (even more, that that were even possible). It was a wild ride. A beautiful gruesome ride, and I loved every second of it
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