Reviews with content warning for Violence - Fourth Wing

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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

2467 reviews

hbalch's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jgintrovertedreader's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark 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: Complicated

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val_812's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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

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deenmachine's review against another edition

3.0

I don't love the militarism and trivializing of death in this series and I am choosing to ignore the author's bio. There is an open market for a nice leftist to write a romantasy series just saying!!!
I cannot get over the love interest's name being Xaden especially when the rest of the characters have normal names. It's giving Mormon mommy blogger
Despite these complaints it was otherwise a fun steamy speedreading romp and unfortunately I will be picking up the next one

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weseljak's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Amazing world building with wonderfully descriptive plot arcs complete with captivating twists and turns that overlap and mix together wonderfully!

Some of the romance elements are a bit heavy handed pushed into the fantastical. Despite this, it is still very enjoyable.

A little bit of Edward vs. Jacob if Jacob was immediately even more annoying.

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noeubby's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad 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 fantasy of it all is so inspiring and imaginative. i enjoyed going along with the characters and how they were portrayed in the book.

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unicorn3's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

Manchmal denkt man sich das BookTok Bücher ihren Hype nicht ganz verdient haben und einfach 0815 Geschichten erzählen, die gleiche Geschichte nur in einer anderen Form, schon zich mal gehört.
Fourth Wing kann man nicht dazu zählen. Von Anfang bis Ende (bis auf einen Teil in der Mitte/ zweites Drittel) ist super spannend erzählt und es passiert immer etwas, sei es einfach nur Charakter-Entwicklung oder World-building (was auch nicht was für jede*n ist, der lieber Spannung pur haben möchte).

Insgesamt ist Violets Geschichte lesenswert und ich werde mich definitiv an die nächsten Bände setzen sobald ich sie in einer Bibliothek finde.
Zudem die ganzen Plottwists die ich mir echt oft sehr überraschend kamen (ein paar waren vorhersehbar) und allgemein die ganze Geschichte. Ein Buch (hoffentlich die ganze Reihe) das den Hype auf jeden Fall verdient hat, selbst die Länge kann die Geschichte nicht zerstören.
9/10 würde ich jedem empfehlen.

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michaelapr's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous tense medium-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: Complicated

The first thing you need to know is how surprised I am that I enjoyed this book. I was not expecting to but there are elements of this book that I really liked: the dragons, the enemies to lovers actually done right, the plot in general. Have I read better fantasy books? Yes. But I can see where people who love romance and who are beginners of fantasy would love it.
I think the content warning for this book is really overblown - the violence and sexual content in this book was not that bad in my opinion but I understand that a teen may pick this book up or someone who doesn't know this is an adult romantasy book could be caught by surprise. I've just read worse is all I'm saying (especially the violence, I've read worse with characters I was more connected to in juvenile fiction).
So now that's out of the way - why isn't this a 4 star rating from me? There's a few reasons, we'll start with the no-spoilers part first:

The book itself (and the chapters) are way too long for me. Or at least felt too long. This is just personal preference really. I just had to take a lot of breaks.
I've just read a lot of fantasy books that I enjoyed more. This one was a lot like a well written fanfic to me, which means it was addicting and I enjoyed it overall but I also think there were hints that were too obvious when dropped and it could've been a bit better in general in certain parts.
Speaking of which: There were a lot of characters I did not care about or were not memorable. I felt like Xaden, Violet, and Liam were the most well developed characters that I had an attachment to. That being said, I did like Violet's friends Sawyer, Ridoc, and Rhiannon - I feel like they do have potential.

Now to the spoilers section, which is honestly the real reason for the 3.75 rating:

They killed my favorite character! Liam was the one character besides Xaden and Violet that I was attached to and they KILLED him. You have a great, likable, memorable, and well developed side character (unlike several others) and he died because his dragon dies. Very upsetting folks. This was the most emotional and upsetting part of the book.
They did the thing I hate with character relationships and I will try my best to explain it in a way that makes sense. When two characters get together I don't like it when the author splits them up to do the whole "I will earn your trust again because we belong together" for one person and "I love you but will pretend I'm not because you betrayed me and I don't want to talk it out even though I was kinda understanding about it two chapters ago" for the other person. It means that the tension will have to build all over again for them to get together again and it usually comes across as just really petty and immature. This trope is overdone and I never like it. I'd much rather see two people argue it out, then build their trust mutually and learn to work together as the ultimate power couple. That is satisfying and not nearly done enough in my opinion.

Okay rant over, if you read the spoilers, you know what I mean.
Anyway.
While the ending definitely makes me want to read the next book, where the relationships are left off still leaves it at a 3.75, not a 4. The last line is not enough for me on that front (though it is a great last line to get people wanting that next book). I'm sure I'll pick up the next book because I am curious about where the story is going (for those who read it and was able to read the spoilers section let me know if I should) but maybe not right away.

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