Title: Fourth Wing
Series: the Empyrean series
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Release Date: May 2023
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...
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
So in preparation for Onyx Storm I decided to reread both Fourth Wing and Iron Flame.
And even though I have read this book multiple times, I still absolutely love it & still am emotionally effected by it every single time.
This book follows Violet in her first year at college, where she spent her whole life training to be a scribe - the ones who record the war and history- but had instead been thrown into becoming a Rider- the ones who battle on the front lines.
It doesn't matter that she didn't have the training. It doesn't matter that her body may be weaker. It doesn't matter that her wingleader is the very son of the man who rebelled against the kingdom- and wants to seek revenge for his death. And he isn't the only one who wants her dead.
But despite the odds stacked against her, she still manages to find a way to overcome every single one of them.
And I absolutely love her. She is stronger than anyone gave her credit for- willing to hold her own.
And loved Xaden too. He is ruthless and Cunning, holding secrets. He is powerful & determined. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Not to mention I love the side characters, world and dragons!
I cannot wait to dive into Iron Flame again, and cannot wait to see what Onyx Storm has for us!
4.5 ⭐ out of 5 ⭐
2🌶️ out of 5🌶️.
First read review | Second read review
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