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.
Genre: fantasy / paranormal
Publication date: May 2023
Mature content: yes
Review: Absolutely loved it. I would rate it with six stars if I could. I would rate it with ten or twenty stars, actually. And fantasy books are not really my thing. But Fourth Wing ended up really being my thing. Unexpectedly, but in the best of ways. This is one of the best books I've read lately, if not ever, and I can see myself re-reading it several times over...
The story hooked me from the first pages, and it was non-stop until the end. There's adventure, suspense, some very wise (and sometimes annoying dragons) and an absolutely beautiful romance story, the way Rebecca Yarros masters at.
I won't include here any spoilers, just two additional thoughts. One, in some places I wished Violet had been more sure of herself and not so hard on Xaden. Second, it's a rather long book and ends at a sort of cliffhanger. There's no way you won't want to read the next one in the series (I'm over half way through Iron Flame by now), so be prepared for binge reading the two books in a row, and then wait desperately for the next one (which is only expected to be published next year...).
Happy readings!
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