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This is the story of a bookish young woman who is the daughter of a military commander. She has been raised, by her father, to work in the archives but after his death the mother decides she should be a dragon rider. This is a very dangerous path to set her on and there are doubts she will survive training.
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child abuse
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Toxic friendship, War, Classism
Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Ableism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Gore, War
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Death, Violence, Murder
Moderate: War
Minor: Child abuse
Do agree with this TikTok and some of their critique on the writing style of the author. Well, it wasn’t enough to completely take me out of the story and DNF the book. It was a little bit jarring.
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment
Minor: Toxic relationship
Yeah Xaden got endless amounts of explaining to do! Also Dain is the dumbest character to ever exist.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Classism
1/29/25
Another reread...now that I've read through Onyx Storm...and omg so many more things were jumping out of the pages at me! Like somethings I should have noticed after reading IF...but it took binging through OS for some of this info we get in FW to smack me. It's so fascinating the amount of information we actually get in FW that we don't realize.
7/15/23 Had to do a reread since I have my own copy now...and because I fell DEEP into Fourth Wing conspiracy Tiktok 👀
6/1/23
Holy crap...this book...was just freakin amazing. I hadn't really heard about it until a week or so before release and I was like...eh I'll wait for the paperback next year. Then all of a sudden I see tons of people gushing about it and I'm like hmm...wonder if it's on Libby?
A coworker ended up buying is, devouring it, and saying it was incredible...and that I could borrow it 😎
Within a few chapters I was already fully invested and in love with Violet and Xaden...and since all the places I normally buy books were already sold out I actually did a Waterstones order and have it coming from the UK 🤣 I'm so used to annotating and the story is so good I KNOW I'll be rereading and annotating my own copy.
If you've ever been the underdog, had a parent constantly disappointed and telling you not to embarrass them...you'll relate to Violet pretty much immediately. Oh and if you're into guys who'll burn the world to save you...yeah this book has that too. 🥰
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War