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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
I cannot begin to describe how annoyed, bored, and angry I was while listening to this. The main character Violet is such a pick-me omfg if I hear ONE MORE TIME about how tiny fragile delicate petite small breakable weak little itty bitty tiny pathetic she is I will literally explode. She was never even disabled, just small. It was the most annoying thing to listen to every other sentence be about how small and fragile she was. "Oh no I'm so tiny and pathetic and weak I get nauseous any time I'm hurt oh no I sprained my ankle there goes my lunch. But also my biggest strength is I am used to pain because I deal with it so often." For a character so used to pain she sure wasn't able to handle very much. A sprained ankle made her nauseous like c'mon, this is just pathetic. Voilet was the must infuriating annoying character I've ever heard and I am so surprised I didn't DNF this book. And seriously, all this build up for her power to just be lightning? That's actually so incredibly boring. "OMG LIGHTNING? Bro u witerally r the only one with the ability to win this war we need u bro. Don't mind the teleporting/"shadow weilding"/mind reading/telepathic/storm making/teleporting/sheild making/healing/seeing the futute/literally your ability to pause time. No bro, lightning is the most important one fs."
And don't even get me started on Xaden's "shadow weilding." How can they be physical? How can he use them during the day? How is his power completely unchecked? His power capabilities change to serve the plot and it's incredibly frustrating world-building. "Omg Violet ur witerally the only one who can kill these guys. Don't mind the fact that I, Xaden, can 'wield shadows' and literally 5 seconds ago killed one of them by strangling them with my shadows. My shadow abilities change to serve the plot and rn, the plot needs u to be the only one to save us all. Go ahead pooks, zap em all and save us bcuz ur definitely the strongest of us."
Violet's main characteristics is being able to withstand pain (which she never can) and being smart, which is strange because she is somehow the dullest character in the book. You cannot claim she's smart and then never show it. I despise when authors do this.
Overall, I hated this book. It certainly had an interesting plot idea, but almost all of the characters were insufferable, the plot had so many holes, the world-building was very poorly executed, and Violet was the most insufferable pick-me girl ever. This book reads like a 13 year old straight off of TikTok wrote it. The stereotypical tropes in this was terrible as well. I hated most of this and I'm not sure how anyone could actually like it, but I'm sure it's for someone. Not for me.
And don't even get me started on Xaden's "shadow weilding." How can they be physical? How can he use them during the day? How is his power completely unchecked? His power capabilities change to serve the plot and it's incredibly frustrating world-building. "Omg Violet ur witerally the only one who can kill these guys. Don't mind the fact that I, Xaden, can 'wield shadows' and literally 5 seconds ago killed one of them by strangling them with my shadows. My shadow abilities change to serve the plot and rn, the plot needs u to be the only one to save us all. Go ahead pooks, zap em all and save us bcuz ur definitely the strongest of us."
Violet's main characteristics is being able to withstand pain (which she never can) and being smart, which is strange because she is somehow the dullest character in the book. You cannot claim she's smart and then never show it. I despise when authors do this.
Overall, I hated this book. It certainly had an interesting plot idea, but almost all of the characters were insufferable, the plot had so many holes, the world-building was very poorly executed, and Violet was the most insufferable pick-me girl ever. This book reads like a 13 year old straight off of TikTok wrote it. The stereotypical tropes in this was terrible as well. I hated most of this and I'm not sure how anyone could actually like it, but I'm sure it's for someone. Not for me.