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A review by couldbestephen
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2.0
Divergent and Ender’s Game meet dragons and magic. The result is lackluster.
It’s very clear Rebecca Yarrows is a romance writer. The scenes where the main character and her love interest (very Tris and Four coded. Extremely Tris and Four coded. This book screamed of Divergent influence guys) were together and romantically entangled were probably the “strongest” portions of the novel. Everything else, from the world building to the magic, was pretty crappy. It felt incredibly generic.
My biggest issue is that the writing style throughout was incredibly… modern? I’m not asking for LotR style prose, but come on. The main character asked if she was “toxic” for loving a man she shouldn’t. There were so many lines that just pulled me out of the Renaissance-esque setting we were in. The plotting was very obvious, the twists are incredibly predictable.
The saving grace for this book is that is was very readable. Until some clunky writing would take me out, I would occasionally be sucked in. For that, I’ll give it 2 stars.
If you read this and enjoyed it, good for you! As someone who has read a good chunk of dragon fantasy, this wasn’t good. This could be a spring board for genuinely good fantasy for readers though! I’d recommend The Dragonriders of PERN next!
It’s very clear Rebecca Yarrows is a romance writer. The scenes where the main character and her love interest (very Tris and Four coded. Extremely Tris and Four coded. This book screamed of Divergent influence guys) were together and romantically entangled were probably the “strongest” portions of the novel. Everything else, from the world building to the magic, was pretty crappy. It felt incredibly generic.
My biggest issue is that the writing style throughout was incredibly… modern? I’m not asking for LotR style prose, but come on. The main character asked if she was “toxic” for loving a man she shouldn’t. There were so many lines that just pulled me out of the Renaissance-esque setting we were in. The plotting was very obvious, the twists are incredibly predictable.
The saving grace for this book is that is was very readable. Until some clunky writing would take me out, I would occasionally be sucked in. For that, I’ll give it 2 stars.
If you read this and enjoyed it, good for you! As someone who has read a good chunk of dragon fantasy, this wasn’t good. This could be a spring board for genuinely good fantasy for readers though! I’d recommend The Dragonriders of PERN next!