Title: Fourth Wing
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Genre: Fantasy 
Publication Date: May 2023
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

ABOUT THE BOOK

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. (from Goodreads)

REVIEW

It took me forever to find a copy of this book.  Of course, I could have bought it online, but I wanted to find it in a bookstore.  I am so glad that I waited!  I had seen so many others read this book and of course all the merch out there, but I had asked myself, is it worth all the hype? Yes, it is worth all the hype.  

Yarros created a world and characters that are both believable and unbelievable at the same time.  When my husband asked me to describe the book, I told him what I had seen others say.  It’s a combination of “Harry Potter” and “How to Train Your Dragon” but so much more.

The story kept me captivated from word one all the way to the end! Oh, and that ending (no spoilers), I wasn’t expecting that!

So a note on characters, oftentimes you find secondary characters, 2 dimensional, but not in “Fourth Wing”.  Yarros spent time getting to know her secondary characters, both human and dragon.  They were as compelling as her main characters.  

The world-building and imagery, the author creates and uses are spectacular.  I can see it all in my mind’s eye, which I can’t say happens in a lot of other books of this genre.  

All in all, this was one of the best books in the genre that I had read in a long time.  I cannot wait for the next one to come out, so I can see what happens next!

Until next time!

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