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A review by awrittenwood
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I get the hype.
This book is a good time. There's a lot to love here - a little romance sub, dragons, brutality, found friendship, betrayal, strength of spirit, and on and so forth. I won't compare this to other high fantasy books that are heralded as the best of the best of the best, because I don't want to diminish a great story that I don't think intended to be another LOTR or Way of Kings type.
It definitely reads YA and could have benefitted from a little more world building and a little less pubescent vibe of how the FMC talks about the MMC to make it feel more mature, but it was still fun for this 33-year-old.
Oddly enough, my favorite thing and my most critical thing are the same: the dragons. I loved Tairn and Andarna and wish we had gotten more about dragons as a whole - a POV or more history or anything about the bond between other riders and their dragons.
Fourth Wing does a pretty decent job of showing us through our FMC that strength can mean so many different things, and it's our actions and how we treat the world around us that makes us worthy.
This book is a good time. There's a lot to love here - a little romance sub, dragons, brutality, found friendship, betrayal, strength of spirit, and on and so forth. I won't compare this to other high fantasy books that are heralded as the best of the best of the best, because I don't want to diminish a great story that I don't think intended to be another LOTR or Way of Kings type.
It definitely reads YA and could have benefitted from a little more world building and a little less pubescent vibe of how the FMC talks about the MMC to make it feel more mature, but it was still fun for this 33-year-old.
Oddly enough, my favorite thing and my most critical thing are the same: the dragons. I loved Tairn and Andarna and wish we had gotten more about dragons as a whole - a POV or more history or anything about the bond between other riders and their dragons.
Fourth Wing does a pretty decent job of showing us through our FMC that strength can mean so many different things, and it's our actions and how we treat the world around us that makes us worthy.