A review by junejunejulyjuly
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

4.0

I picked this up reluctantly, convinced I wasn’t going to like it, but coerced by people who have shared tastes. I started the first 3/4 listening to the audiobook and maybe that’s what grabbed me, but this started out really strong! Very entertaining and enjoyable. I loved the world building, political intrigue, and the character building was pretty good. Then Libby, that fickle bitch, snatched the audiobook from me and it was another 13 week wait so I switched to reading so perhaps that’s to blame BUT you’re going to tell me that the most powerful dragon and the little golden one picked a character that would tell Xaden Riorson or whoever that she loves him after he said don’t fall for me? I almost DNF’d. Girl, no. Then she says she loves him on the parapet?! Say it isn’t so. I was embarrassed for her. Talk about an author dumbing down their FMC. Then everything went Electric Wizard airbrushed 80s van mural in the last 5 chapters. Huh what? And then the cliffhanger! And he says he won’t lie ever again LOL. This is unhinged. Anyways, I still got the second book because now I need to know how deep this hole gets dug. I know Violence is only Violence in the streets and a Tradwife in the sheets, so it’s just like dragon propaganda but whatever. Waterstones paperback here we come.