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Fourth Wing

Rebecca Yarros

4.44 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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the way i have no words right now to describe how i am feeling over this book because it has made me feel so immersed and obsessed with it
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The dragons were cool so that’s what pushed it to a 3. I’m tired, though, of female protagonists whose only traits are being Special™ and being wildly attracted to the male protagonist. The relationship dynamics felt very reminiscent of 2010s YA.
adventurous inspiring fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So good omg. I knew I’d be obsessed since all I’ve heard is that it’s better than ACOTAR and I was very obsessed. I had to force myself to take breaks so I would pay more attention to the details because I was flying through it. 

Really excited for iron flame and onyx storm now with the ending of this one. Debating reading other books in between just so I don’t finish the series too quick because I think the post series heart break will be much worse than finishing acotar was. 

Like to joke that everyone loves a morally grey shadow daddy but it’s me, I’m everyone. They have my heart.

Are you kidding? This had me in a choke hold since the first chapter!
The character development is impeccable! This book made me laugh hard and cry even harder and the ending? God I can’t wait for the second book to come out.
Do it, just read the book. It’s worth it.
adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm amazed that the poor writing of this is not distracting to more people. The story is compelling, and I like that the FMC has a condition like Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom/or similar but ugh, the writing made it so hard to get through the first third (until the story was good enough to make me want to keep reading). I only pushed on by skipping ahead and reading for a little about halfway though and then circling back to the beginning. Please stop telling the reader how smart Violet is (especially in the beginning) and just show us that she is smart. It can be part of her identitiy, but let the reader decide. It shows that the author is not as smart as she thinks she is. The dialogue is also disappointing. If Violet is supposed to be so smart, make the dialogue more witty. I would have rather not been told so many times (at least once a chapter) in this book how remarkably smart Violet is. The author did not fully convince me. 

I enjoyed the romance and the dragons, which is why I'm giving this a 3/5. 
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated