Saturday, March 15, 2025

*Review* Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

 

Genre: Romantic Fantasy
Published: May 2, 2023
Pages: 665


Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: 
graduate or die.


My primary book club read this book last year for our January meeting. This is my honest review. 

I should have written this review before I read Iron Flame and Onyx Storm, because I liked the series more after this book than I currently do. Fourth Wing sucked me into the world of the Empyrean. There were some serious Divergent vibes the way the university separates students and violet made it into Dauntless with flying colors. 

I was also intrigued by the relationship between Wiolet and Xaden. By all counts they should not get along. He has every reason to bear a grudge against her based on who her mother is and vice versa. Of course this wouldn't be a YA/NA book without at least one love triangle. But who will she choose?

Overall I give Fourth Wing 4.3978 out of 5 stars. - Katie 




Rebecca Yarros is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifteen novels, with multiple starred Publishers Weekly reviews and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A second-generation army brat, Rebecca loves military heroes and has been blissfully married to hers for more than twenty years. She's the mother of six children, and she and her family live in Colorado with their stubborn English bulldogs, two feisty chinchillas, and a cat named Artemis, who rules them all.

Having fostered, then adopted their youngest daughter, Rebecca is passionate about helping children in the foster system through her nonprofit, One October, which she cofounded with her husband in 2019. To learn more about their mission, visit oneoctober.org.

To catch up on Rebecca's latest releases and upcoming novels, visit RebeccaYarros.com.

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