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4.44 AVERAGE
4.44 AVERAGE
Dropped my rating from 3.75 to 3. Honestly, this book was SUCH a let down to me!!! Everyone raves about it so I was expecting it to be one of my favorite books ever, but I did NOT enjoy the writing. The story line was fun, but the writing feels underdeveloped and juvenile. It’s a lot of telling me things instead of showing me things. All the parts of the story I enjoyed and wanted her to spend more time on were skipped over in half a page or less.
I felt no chemistry between the two main characters and the spice was written too bluntly for my enjoyment. The spice also added absolutely nothing to the story.
Lastly, everyone says that the ending goes wild. The ending did, in fact, not go wild. The ending was the most boring part in my opinion. I had 0 réaction to anything in the last 100 pages of the book. I’ll read the second one in hopes that it’s better than the first.
I was hoping this would fill the hole in my heat after finishing the Throne of Glass series, but I’m just disappointed :( please don’t come for me for my unpopular opinion haha
All in all, the storyline was interesting but the poor writing left a lot to be desired.
I felt no chemistry between the two main characters and the spice was written too bluntly for my enjoyment. The spice also added absolutely nothing to the story.
Lastly, everyone says that the ending goes wild. The ending did, in fact, not go wild. The ending was the most boring part in my opinion. I had 0 réaction to anything in the last 100 pages of the book. I’ll read the second one in hopes that it’s better than the first.
I was hoping this would fill the hole in my heat after finishing the Throne of Glass series, but I’m just disappointed :( please don’t come for me for my unpopular opinion haha
All in all, the storyline was interesting but the poor writing left a lot to be desired.
"Fourth Wing" is a remarkable novel that stands out for its extraordinary world-building and intricately designed characters. The author has crafted a universe so vivid and detailed that it leaps off the page, immersing readers in a world that feels both fantastical and eerily familiar. The settings are described with such richness and depth that one can easily visualize the landscapes, cities, and cultures that populate this imaginative world.
What truly elevates "Fourth Wing" are its characters. Each character is meticulously developed, with distinct personalities, backgrounds, and motivations that are skillfully woven into the narrative. The protagonist, with their unique blend of strengths and vulnerabilities, is particularly compelling, leading the reader through a journey that is as emotionally engaging as it is adventurous.
The interplay between characters is masterfully executed, with relationships and dialogues that feel authentic and contribute significantly to the depth of the story. The author has a gift for creating characters who are not just players in a story, but individuals who live and breathe within their world.
In summary, "Fourth Wing" is a triumph in the realm of fantasy literature. Its rich world-building sets a stunning backdrop for a cast of characters who are as complex as they are captivating. This book is a must-read for anyone who appreciates a well-constructed fantasy world populated by characters who resonate long after the last page is turned.
What truly elevates "Fourth Wing" are its characters. Each character is meticulously developed, with distinct personalities, backgrounds, and motivations that are skillfully woven into the narrative. The protagonist, with their unique blend of strengths and vulnerabilities, is particularly compelling, leading the reader through a journey that is as emotionally engaging as it is adventurous.
The interplay between characters is masterfully executed, with relationships and dialogues that feel authentic and contribute significantly to the depth of the story. The author has a gift for creating characters who are not just players in a story, but individuals who live and breathe within their world.
In summary, "Fourth Wing" is a triumph in the realm of fantasy literature. Its rich world-building sets a stunning backdrop for a cast of characters who are as complex as they are captivating. This book is a must-read for anyone who appreciates a well-constructed fantasy world populated by characters who resonate long after the last page is turned.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
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:
Yes
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adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
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:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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
i'm between a 2 and a 2.5 on this one. honestly it can be a fun read if you don't think about it too much, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. i mean i thought the concept was really cool in theory?? it had a lot of potential but it just wasn't executed well imo. okay this is probably going to sound like a lot of complaining but i'll add the parts i also liked. spoilers ahead, be warned!
the whole book honestly felt like yarros throwing together a bunch of tropes and hoping that they would stick. i went into this thinking that this was going to be high fantasy (high romantasy?) and then i read a line like "just another tuesday" or "flaming hot. scorching hot. gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level of hot" like HELLO what. the relationship between xaden and violet felt like it was set up for a good enemies to lovers slow burn but you can literally feel no real danger or threat from xaden the entire time. violet literally thirsts over him in every single inner monologue she has about him so not only was it obvious that he was the love interest, but i never even felt any romantic chemistry between them aside from their sexual tension
and then the worldbuilding god. violet's background in training to be a scribe was 100% just so that she could info dump cause why am i hearing her reciting the history of navarre out loud while she's crossing the parapet ?? also she claimed to do this to calm herself down and then proceeded to never do it again. i honestly still can't understand why her mom allowed her to train to be a scribe for so long if she was so insistent on her daughter being a dragon rider. but, anyway, back to the worldbuilding... raising the stakes is one thing. raising the stakes for the sake of tension that doesn't even make sense for the story is insane. the premise of the war college sort of sounds like a hybrid of the hunger games and divergent where they're allowed to kill each other, but this just doesn't make any sense for navarre at all. there's a whole war going on and the point of training dragon riders is to fight against whatever threat to protect their people. why on earth are they allowed to kill each other instead of just letting people flunk out of basgiath?? and they have no rules against hurting the bonded riders??? why would they allow cadets to kill bonded riders when that loses them soldiers?? it just makes no sense to me
not only that but the deaths just felt so meaningless to me. i didn't care about aurelie's at all. in fact, i sort of saw it coming because she appeared for like two pages to deliver some lines that screamed death flag and—surprise surprise—she died. womp womp. the author tells us about all these deaths but we don't really feel them. maybe that's what yarros was going for, but violet is a first year who was never even supposed to join the rider's quadrant until very last minute. and even though she doesn't want to be, she's compassionate. i can't imagine that all these deaths wouldn't put a strain on her mental health, but the only one i really felt was liam's death (the only side character that got a little more attention rip
i think the problem was just that yarros has a bunch of weird time skips that felt super jarring. it's implied that violet gets close to the side characters during these jumps but we never read about any of the turning points in these characters' relationships or how they get friendly with each other. i mean isn't it pretty significant to get close to someone in a place where it's not promised you'll even survive through the day? why are we glazing over these moments? ridoc is such a promising character but we literally get crumbs from him. i also liked rhiannon at first until i realized she was never escaping the token bisexual label. i think i would've felt more attached to these characters and understood their relationships and dynamics better if we got to see why they were close and what was the turning point that made them friends instead of mere acquaintances. jumping from a scene where violet hardly knows ridoc's name to him putting his arms around her and rhiannon to show their closeness is just too sudden for me to even care about their friendship
i also have very mixed feelings about violet as an fmc, but i do plan to read the rest of the series so i'll hold my judgement until i see how her character progresses. right now it just annoys me that she just thinks about sex all the time and makes some very questionable decisions for someone who's said to be extremely smart. oh god and the number of times she calls herself small and weak. just kill me already. i hope her xaden obsession wears off soon because i was so embarrassed for her when she asked xaden to take her to bed in the middle of class (like yeah it was just within their heads but girl stand up!!!) and then she randomly jumped to the conclusion that xaden had a thing for imogen ?
but for the parts i DID like, honestly there weren't as many of those as the parts i disliked but i thought the dragons were sick. tairn and andarna were my favs <3 i still think we really didn't need to have that plot point about the dragon riders feeling their dragons mate but oh well. the last battle in the book after dain sold them out (screw dain btw) with the dragons against the wyvern and venin was the action i was waiting for throughout the entire book honestly and omg liam losing his dragon and dying right after was so sad :( even though i could see his death coming tbh he had so many death flags during that second half of the book and even had that "i'd like to think my death would be just as honorable" line right before they went into battle
i also liked that violet worked around the limitations of her body during training, but i also don't understand how she thought that would work out for her in the long run LOL like surely someone was going to notice. (xaden did obviously, but i feel like that was more for the "i've always been in love with you" thing yarros was going for with them) violet just couldn't have possibly thought that she would survive the rest of her years there by poisoning people and dodging fights, but i did like that xaden and imogen helped train her to be stronger
and the scribes are so cool. give me more scribe action. i honestly feel it coming after that one chapter blurb about how there's nothing more sacred than the archives and that books cannot be rewritten. i wonder where that's gonna go with how they hid and rewrote their own history
since i'm curious to see how this is gonna span across five books, i'm probably gonna keep reading. wish me luck for iron flame
the whole book honestly felt like yarros throwing together a bunch of tropes and hoping that they would stick. i went into this thinking that this was going to be high fantasy (high romantasy?) and then i read a line like "just another tuesday" or "flaming hot. scorching hot. gets-you-into-trouble-and-you-like-it level of hot" like HELLO what. the relationship between xaden and violet felt like it was set up for a good enemies to lovers slow burn but you can literally feel no real danger or threat from xaden the entire time. violet literally thirsts over him in every single inner monologue she has about him so not only was it obvious that he was the love interest, but i never even felt any romantic chemistry between them aside from their sexual tension
and then the worldbuilding god. violet's background in training to be a scribe was 100% just so that she could info dump cause why am i hearing her reciting the history of navarre out loud while she's crossing the parapet ?? also she claimed to do this to calm herself down and then proceeded to never do it again. i honestly still can't understand why her mom allowed her to train to be a scribe for so long if she was so insistent on her daughter being a dragon rider. but, anyway, back to the worldbuilding... raising the stakes is one thing. raising the stakes for the sake of tension that doesn't even make sense for the story is insane. the premise of the war college sort of sounds like a hybrid of the hunger games and divergent where they're allowed to kill each other, but this just doesn't make any sense for navarre at all. there's a whole war going on and the point of training dragon riders is to fight against whatever threat to protect their people. why on earth are they allowed to kill each other instead of just letting people flunk out of basgiath?? and they have no rules against hurting the bonded riders??? why would they allow cadets to kill bonded riders when that loses them soldiers?? it just makes no sense to me
not only that but the deaths just felt so meaningless to me. i didn't care about aurelie's at all. in fact, i sort of saw it coming because she appeared for like two pages to deliver some lines that screamed death flag and—surprise surprise—she died. womp womp. the author tells us about all these deaths but we don't really feel them. maybe that's what yarros was going for, but violet is a first year who was never even supposed to join the rider's quadrant until very last minute. and even though she doesn't want to be, she's compassionate. i can't imagine that all these deaths wouldn't put a strain on her mental health, but the only one i really felt was liam's death (the only side character that got a little more attention rip
i think the problem was just that yarros has a bunch of weird time skips that felt super jarring. it's implied that violet gets close to the side characters during these jumps but we never read about any of the turning points in these characters' relationships or how they get friendly with each other. i mean isn't it pretty significant to get close to someone in a place where it's not promised you'll even survive through the day? why are we glazing over these moments? ridoc is such a promising character but we literally get crumbs from him. i also liked rhiannon at first until i realized she was never escaping the token bisexual label. i think i would've felt more attached to these characters and understood their relationships and dynamics better if we got to see why they were close and what was the turning point that made them friends instead of mere acquaintances. jumping from a scene where violet hardly knows ridoc's name to him putting his arms around her and rhiannon to show their closeness is just too sudden for me to even care about their friendship
i also have very mixed feelings about violet as an fmc, but i do plan to read the rest of the series so i'll hold my judgement until i see how her character progresses. right now it just annoys me that she just thinks about sex all the time and makes some very questionable decisions for someone who's said to be extremely smart. oh god and the number of times she calls herself small and weak. just kill me already. i hope her xaden obsession wears off soon because i was so embarrassed for her when she asked xaden to take her to bed in the middle of class (like yeah it was just within their heads but girl stand up!!!) and then she randomly jumped to the conclusion that xaden had a thing for imogen ?
but for the parts i DID like, honestly there weren't as many of those as the parts i disliked but i thought the dragons were sick. tairn and andarna were my favs <3 i still think we really didn't need to have that plot point about the dragon riders feeling their dragons mate but oh well. the last battle in the book after dain sold them out (screw dain btw) with the dragons against the wyvern and venin was the action i was waiting for throughout the entire book honestly and omg liam losing his dragon and dying right after was so sad :( even though i could see his death coming tbh he had so many death flags during that second half of the book and even had that "i'd like to think my death would be just as honorable" line right before they went into battle
i also liked that violet worked around the limitations of her body during training, but i also don't understand how she thought that would work out for her in the long run LOL like surely someone was going to notice. (xaden did obviously, but i feel like that was more for the "i've always been in love with you" thing yarros was going for with them) violet just couldn't have possibly thought that she would survive the rest of her years there by poisoning people and dodging fights, but i did like that xaden and imogen helped train her to be stronger
and the scribes are so cool. give me more scribe action. i honestly feel it coming after that one chapter blurb about how there's nothing more sacred than the archives and that books cannot be rewritten. i wonder where that's gonna go with how they hid and rewrote their own history
since i'm curious to see how this is gonna span across five books, i'm probably gonna keep reading. wish me luck for iron flame
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No