Review by cjfooks - Fourth Wing

cjfooks 's review for:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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: Yes

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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