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A review by carlyoc
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Much like a Court of Thorns and Rose's, I found the writing distractingly unpolished for about the first third of the book but powered through because I'd heard such good things. Sure enough, once we got to know some dragons as characters, I was hooked and once the romance spiced up, I wasn't even paying attention to the prose anymore.
I am definitely going to continue the series, especially given the cliffhanger this one ended on.
Fourth Wing is about a girl named Violet whose mother and siblings are bad ass dragon riders but who was training to be a scribe like her father, who unfortunatelypassed away a few years before we enter the story. Her harsh mother decrees that Violet must join the academy of dragon riders instead, knowing full well that Violet's small size and connective tissue disorder will put her at a potentially lethal disadvantage. Against all odds, Violet makes it through both the intimidating entrance challenge and every other challenge the school throws at her, making friends and allies along the way as well as a few enemies. Yet the person she thought would be her biggest threat, the son of the rebellion leader her mother subdued, seems mysteriously drawn to her instead.
By the end of the novel, we cross from individual-level fight for survival to realm-level war and intrigue.
I am definitely going to continue the series, especially given the cliffhanger this one ended on.
Fourth Wing is about a girl named Violet whose mother and siblings are bad ass dragon riders but who was training to be a scribe like her father, who unfortunatelypassed away a few years before we enter the story. Her harsh mother decrees that Violet must join the academy of dragon riders instead, knowing full well that Violet's small size and connective tissue disorder will put her at a potentially lethal disadvantage. Against all odds, Violet makes it through both the intimidating entrance challenge and every other challenge the school throws at her, making friends and allies along the way as well as a few enemies. Yet the person she thought would be her biggest threat, the son of the rebellion leader her mother subdued, seems mysteriously drawn to her instead.
By the end of the novel, we cross from individual-level fight for survival to realm-level war and intrigue.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death, War, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail