Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

35 reviews

filipa_maia's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

5.0

It took a really long time to connect with this story, but when I did, my goodness, I got hooked.

Violet is such an amazing character, her growth throughout the entire story is one of the best character arcs I've ever read. The plot is great, full of twists, great friendships, magic and cool dragons. How can you ask for more than that?

Are there any weird little things? Yes. Why the hell do they need to bond with a dragon to write with a pen? What kind of power is that? Why are the sex scenes so…detailed? We get it, sex is good, we don't need to read every thing they feel.

The ending was brilliant! I can't wait to read the second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Child death, Blood, Abandonment, Cursing, Violence, Toxic relationship, War, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Grief, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Vomit

emilycfox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wowowowow hunger games x divergent x game of thrones + steamy slow burn romance
I was laughing, squealing, swooning, gasping, and on the edge of my seat the ENTIRE TIME. The second I finished, I wished I could rewind my life a week to experience reading it for the first time again. The writing isn’t exceptional, but the story more than makes up for that in my opinion. 
It was so special to read a book with a bad-ass disabled character (I have a connective tissue disorder like Violet). And I think her disability makes the story so much more interesting, complex, and relatable than all the other dystopian-type novels with women main characters who are physically strong and clearly capable from the start. 
Also, the romantic plot line is WOW. I wasn’t expecting it to get so sexually explicit, but I’m def not mad about it lol — just a heads up in case you aren’t into that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Violence, and War

Moderate: Abandonment, Cursing, Death of parent, and Medical content

imds's review

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Kidnapping, War, Xenophobia, Murder, Violence, Death, Grief, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Gore

cjfooks's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A brilliant mix of dystopian YA and fantasy (think divergent in a game of thrones world) with war, training, magic, dragons, death and sex. 

A mostly loveable main character (which in YA/dystopian is hard to pull off sometimes - especially when they’re a head-strong proud character). 

In fact, all the characters are well defined and complex, and the plot(s) are cleverly woven, giving away the perfect amount of information at the perfect time. 

I definitely wasn’t expecting so much smut in this (there’s 2 fully explicit and long sex scenes in there) but it’s done well and doesn’t feel cheap or unnecessary. 

Occasionally, there are some lines that fall a bit short and feel cringey but the majority of interactions are witty, sexy and well-written. 

I really couldn’t put this book down. 

Would 100% recommend this and the only disappointing thing about it, is that it ended on a brilliant cliff-hanger, and, as I read it the year it came out, I doubt I’ll be reading the sequel any time soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: War, Cursing, Abandonment, and Grief

meliemelo's review

adventurous funny 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

3.5

Look. Is this well-written? Not really, and it gets quite bad at some point.

But is this entertaining? YES.

It hits all the beats of a fun YA and I thoroughly enjoyed myself reading it.

Sometimes, you don't need a literary masterpiece. You just need dragons.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Animal death, and Murder

Moderate: Grief and Abandonment

lorraine19's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I don't say this lightly - this is my new favorite book. Every scene - even the slower discussion scenes - is tense. The way everything was written is so beautiful. There's a perfect mix of everything from epic dragons, to conspiracy, to spicy scenes. Characters are as complex and complicated as the world they live in. The excerpts at the beginning of each chapter add so much to the world building and I was absolutely captivated each page. I cannot recommend this book enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Sexual content, Classism, Cursing, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Bullying, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Animal death, Child death, War, Death of parent, Confinement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Abandonment, and Death

adventuresinmytbr's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

5.0

This was a reread for me. I enjoyed as much the second time as I did the first. I am ready to read Iron Flame. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Bullying, War, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Death of parent

cs172's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Violence, and War

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Blood, and Death

Minor: Death, Abandonment, Ableism, Death of parent, and Gore

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

Holy shit!!! What took me so long to read this book!!! It is incredible!!! Rebecca Yarros is in the same league with Sarah J Maas except with Rebecca it doesn’t take a book or 2 to get me addicted to the series, I was hooked from the beginning! I loved everything about this book & I already want to read it again!!! But instead I’m going to go start Iron Flame! 😍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, War, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Bullying, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment and Torture