risarcheron 's review for:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2.75
adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
If you need a non-serious read and/or an intro romantasy book, this is a decent place to start. It is a fun, light read (if you aren’t used to the depth of other fantasy books) with a ton of fantasy elements and tropes. However, if you want a better book series to restart your book reading journey, I would recommend the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” by Sarah J. Maas or “War of Lost Hearts” by Carissa Broadbent series. I think that this book’s rating is severely inflated from others discovering it on BookTok.


Overall, this book feels like good fan fiction on Watt Pad. The character development is severely lacking.
Frankly, it was shocking that the FMC and MMC get together before the book even ended as it seemed like little to no time for the “enemies to lovers” trope to happen. While it was obvious they would get together from the start, I wish there had been a slower burn and more character development before they got together. The lust from the FMC starts almost immediately with almost no build up. The MMC’s nickname for the FMC is cringeworthy and predictable.

The story throws together a bunch of other fantasy/dystopian story lines (ex: Divergent, Game of Thrones, ACOTAR, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, etc.) and many tropes into one book (ex: shadow “daddies,” enemies to lovers, smol girl/big man 🙄, etc.) 

The writing is cringeworthy at times…
I cannot think of another fantasy book series where a FMC would say she wants to climb the MMC “like a tree” not just once, but twice…

On a more positive note, one aspect of the book I really appreciated was that the FMC
had a disability,
which is not widely represented in other fantasy novels. 
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