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A review by alibookedup
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
challenging
tense
medium-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
3.5
What I liked:
- Serves you 2000s YA nostalgia with a persevering female character, a love triangle, and a dystopian/utopian world (depending what side you look at it from), and all the fantasy elements you need with dragon riding.
- Gives you The Hunger Games and Divergent meets How to Train Your Dragon.
- The romance was spicy and reminded me that it’s very much not a YA book.
- loved the dragons and that they controlled the world more than the humans. I found it really unique, especially how the bonds of the dragons and their riders evolved and functioned.
What dropped the ball for me:
- the storyline was pretty predictable. I was able to guess pretty much everything that happened. It also sometimes felt a little repetitive with the daily life of the characters and made a lot of parts feel slow for me.
- the characters were also a bit too on the nose with their archetypes. You have Violet - a supposedly weak yet stubborn female who discovers her strength to combat everything she thought she knew. Xaden - the bad boy enemy who’s not as much of a villain has everyone is led to believe and falls for main character. Dain- the good boy and childhood friend who has unrequited feelings for the main character and is a perfect soldier for the government he fights for. Jack - a mean bully who has a random, violent hatred towards Violet and strives to kill her at every turn.
- Serves you 2000s YA nostalgia with a persevering female character, a love triangle, and a dystopian/utopian world (depending what side you look at it from), and all the fantasy elements you need with dragon riding.
- Gives you The Hunger Games and Divergent meets How to Train Your Dragon.
- The romance was spicy and reminded me that it’s very much not a YA book.
- loved the dragons and that they controlled the world more than the humans. I found it really unique, especially how the bonds of the dragons and their riders evolved and functioned.
What dropped the ball for me:
- the storyline was pretty predictable. I was able to guess pretty much everything that happened. It also sometimes felt a little repetitive with the daily life of the characters and made a lot of parts feel slow for me.
- the characters were also a bit too on the nose with their archetypes. You have Violet - a supposedly weak yet stubborn female who discovers her strength to combat everything she thought she knew. Xaden - the bad boy enemy who’s not as much of a villain has everyone is led to believe and falls for main character. Dain- the good boy and childhood friend who has unrequited feelings for the main character and is a perfect soldier for the government he fights for. Jack - a mean bully who has a random, violent hatred towards Violet and strives to kill her at every turn.