Reviews tagging 'Body shaming'

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

93 reviews

sauvageloup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

giving a four for pure grippingness, as I was totally glued to this. fair bit of unoriginality though.

pros:
- it's pretty unputdownable, constantly keeping the tension high and the ball rolling. very good writing and pacing in that sense as there was never a dull bit.
- the different scenes were written well too, the fighting, dialogue, reflection and romance were all solid.
- I likes the setting, the dragons, the politics and worldbuilding, but the characters were the strong point. xaden and violet were both compelling and conflicted in their own ways.
- especially liked the flashing out of the side characters. I was definitely emotional when

Amber's dragon grieved and Liam died.

. Yarros does a good job of giving enough details about side characters to make them feel real. 
- I hear from my friend witty Eds that Violet's was written well and it's great to see more disability representation, since its sadly lacking. great that she wasnt magically cured of it, and was supported by others throughout the story even as others tried to take her out.
- focus on sibling relationships was cool top, great to see mira and violets positive sisterhood and rhiannon and her sister.
- a fair number of twists were unpredictable, like

getting 2 dragons, xaden taking her to the rebuilt city and brennan being alive

- I also liked that the characters were 20y/o plus, and the women were called that, not girls.
- inclusion of queer side characters was great to see too, including rhiannon and Heaton, neither of which faced any discrimination for it.

cons:
- it was all very classic YA tropes with an adult bent. Dane and xaden were immediately obviously love interests (twilight)

though I'm glad Dane was revealed as shitty pretty fast.

, we have a murdery military school and a catch the flag games (like divergent and percy jackson), untrustworthy leadership and rebellion (hunger games). also knife throwing and the MC getting

the best dragon and the best magic and the hot unavailable older man, whilst being a tiny little pixie girl with silver hair. and enemies to lovers of course

- though called clever, violet does have some dim moments for sure,

like she really didnt expect xaden to be part of a rebellion at all?? honestly.

- also didny like the last chapter being xadens POV. it sounded the exact same to violets which was disappointing and was unneeded. he was better just through violets eyes.
- overall, I would have liked some more real failures for violet, and less cliches. plus some more real violence rather than the squeamish stuff. go big or go home for the morally grey characters is what I say.

but it still gets a four because it was very gripping, I did like xaden and violet and their chemistry, plus the side characters and the dragons. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cursing, Murder, War, Bullying, Gore, Violence, Ableism, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Medical content

jessieslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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? No

5.0

Positive things!
i loved this book, i heard so much abt it i thought it was a pr stunt or something and i never planned on reading it but i finally did and my god am i glad i did. it was such a fun book and so cool, the dragons are super cool, the plot is super cool and the characters are so lovable! 

Negative
literally my only negative thing to say about this is how at the beginning it’s all oh she’s so fragile a gust of wind can knock her over but as cheesy as it is it’s very important to the plot and her story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

moodreadererin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book ruined me in all the best ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Death of parent, War, Bullying, Blood, Gaslighting, Death, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Body shaming

Moderate: Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Medical content

owls_rainbow's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing! I loved it and that ending!!! I am shook and I cannot wait for the sequel!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Vomit, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, War, Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit

parkersicle's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body shaming, War, Toxic relationship, Murder, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Grief, Genocide, Death, Bullying, Ableism, Violence, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

katiekeske's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was an entertaining enough read, even though I thought about not finishing it in the beginning. I stuck with it and eventually got invested. I think it's generally a well written YA novel, but it was a little juvenile for me personally. It's a little weird how a violent, sexually graphic novel can come across juvenile. I would have preferred if it was written for adults as a New Adult novel, but I can't help thinking they want teenagers to read it. 

I liked that the heroine had physical issues to overcome and usually thought things through. 

Overall, I couldn't suspend my disbelief about certain things with the world-building. I find it hard to believe a school would be so okay with students killing each other. They are supposed to be training soldiers, but how can you trust people in the future when you've been thinking they will kill you all through school? Plus, rules kept being mentioned about not hurting others or using your powers during training, then a character would. There were never any repercussions for the rule breaking. 

Warning for SPOILERS, the twists toward the end just frustrated me. Honesty is really important to me, and my views toward Xaden (and others involved in the secret) took a nosedive. I knew there was going to be a secret he was keeping, so that part wasn't much of a surprise. Then when it happened I just couldn't feel much respect for him. I don't plan on reading any sequels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Violence, Murder, and Vomit

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Blood, Chronic illness, Cursing, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol

nanastradamus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

Dragons! Magic! Death games-y college! Underestimated main character who is Actually Very Special! Political intrigue and rebellion! Sped through this as the first new book I’ve read in years. Plot was compelling (if a tiny but predictable) and had all of the tropes and story devices that I love to read. Loved that the character lineup was so diverse in terms of sexualities, pronouns, disabilities, etc. (incl. the main character!) but what made them diverse wasn’t a plot point or huge part of the story

(besides the main character)

, they just were.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Body shaming, Bullying, and Child abuse

lemonwrlds's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Violence, War, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

clairew97's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Grief, Ableism, Child death, Violence, War, Animal death, Bullying, Blood, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual content