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adventurous
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Violence, War
adventurous
dark
emotional
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:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, War
Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Misogyny, Violence, Death of parent
Read this popular fantasy novel after first two books of ACOTAR (Sarah Maas) and man if I thought I liked those (2nd more than first TBH), this one was so much better! Both feature strong female protagonist forced into difficult/impossible situations to survive (with negative/missing female/mother figures in their lives)but Violet just is overall less…annoying?whiney? Both?! 😬 and therefore while I like both male main characters in each book, respectively, I feel like I enjoyed Fourth Wing much more than I expected (the dragon thing didn’t appeal to me in the least at first but the bond turns into an interesting part/effect on the storyline).
adventurous
dark
emotional
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:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Genocide, Death of parent
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content
Moderate: Gore, Violence, War
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, War
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
1st POV, 1 POV
The tension?? The banter?? The magic?? The first sex scene?? XADEN??
I was worried about angst, but I wasn't anxious at all, and unless blood and death make you uncomfortable, it's pretty chill when it comes to triggers. There are a few lines of jealousy, but it is definitely unnecessary, and there isn't any dramaShe's not even interested in Xaden lol
Violet salivating over Xaden was a bit too much sometimes but I can't blame her.
- I'm probably in the minority here, but the dragons mostly annoyed me. 😅
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I won't be reading book 2 because (according to reviews) there's a lot of OW angst and lack of communication so no thanks🥴
The tension?? The banter?? The magic?? The first sex scene?? XADEN??
I was worried about angst, but I wasn't anxious at all, and unless blood and death make you uncomfortable, it's pretty chill when it comes to triggers. There are a few lines of jealousy, but it is definitely unnecessary, and there isn't any drama
Violet salivating over Xaden was a bit too much sometimes but I can't blame her.
- I'm probably in the minority here, but the dragons mostly annoyed me. 😅
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I won't be reading book 2 because (according to reviews) there's a lot of OW angst and lack of communication so no thanks🥴
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Sexual content, War
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
sue me, i loved this. it was fun! yes a few things annoyed me like the time jumps and i was a bit like ok come on violet like you're about to die but lusting after this man? but it was FUN. i inhaled it over 5 days - the amount of hate the book gets i almost feel awkward to be like i really enjoyed it lol
Content Warnings
Graphic: War
Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
emotional
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Stalking
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
If you get fed any social media posts about books, you have probably heard about Fourth Wing. Admittedly, I went into reading this book thinking “Everyone is saying it’s a game changer, so it must be amazing” and I think that is the wrong way to start this, or any, book.
I’d like to start by saying it is good. If you like romantasy (fantasy+romance) with a touch of dystopia, you’ll have a great time reading Fourth Wing. The main character is also explicitly disabled and it is intertwined with her journey of self-discovery, as well as challenging the status quo of the society she is in. Based on the descriptions, I think she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. I also love the dragons. They are characters in their own right, not just tools to be used. However, the entire time I was reading, I couldn’t help but tell myself “This is just Divergent with dragons.” The general plot is almost identical. Everything was predictable because of this and the only things that I didn’t predict were because something we were told was “impossible” was, in fact, possible for our super special main character. This occurs multiple times. I don’t even think it’s an unreliable narrator at that point. I think it’s an unreliable universe. The upper hand that Fourth Wing has over Divergent is that this fantasy setting allows for more creativity (and covering up for narrative mistakes). Additionally, I did not enjoy most of the main character’s “love life”. This is enemies-to-lovers, so much so that it is almost anti-friends-to-lovers. I don’t care about either trope, but the blatant comparisons get old. I also felt that the main character thinks about “spice” a lot more than I care for, especially considering the actual spice level of the book. There may be people who want to see this since women’s sexuality is largely swept aside in many stories. But this was not it for me.
Overall, this is a decent adult romantasy book and probably a good introduction to the genre for people who prefer epic fantasy stories. I don’t feel like I wasted my time reading it. But it is not groundbreaking in the slightest and I’m not sure if I will continue the series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was fine, but I found it very derivative - like I had read all of it some place before. It’s basically like Top Gun plus Hunger Games plus A Court of Thorns and Roses. If you like the dragons, I cannot recommend Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series enough - it’s basically the same dragon-magic system but the world makes more sense.
Basgiath has to be the world’s worst military school - it seems like it exists simply to kill off its cadets which seems counterproductive? Call me crazy but there are stakes higher and fates worse than death. In a book written in first person POV you know from the jump that the narrator isn’t dying soooooo the tension I wanted in the first part of the book simply wasn’t there.
In the year of our lord 2024, I simply cannot get into a hero named Xaden, even though I liked him just fine in terms of his actual actions/personality. Tairn was the best character in a SEA of named characters who were interchangeable and forgettable. Violet is very much a 20 year old dystopian fantasy heroine.
Basgiath has to be the world’s worst military school - it seems like it exists simply to kill off its cadets which seems counterproductive? Call me crazy but there are stakes higher and fates worse than death. In a book written in first person POV you know from the jump that the narrator isn’t dying soooooo the tension I wanted in the first part of the book simply wasn’t there.
In the year of our lord 2024, I simply cannot get into a hero named Xaden, even though I liked him just fine in terms of his actual actions/personality. Tairn was the best character in a SEA of named characters who were interchangeable and forgettable. Violet is very much a 20 year old dystopian fantasy heroine.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail