Fourth Wing

This book might be part of the The Empyrean series.

Part of The Empyrean

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances …

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

2 editions

Hardcover, 528 pages

English language

Published June 3, 2023 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-349-43701-9
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Reviews

Nat reviewed Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

4.0 stars

This book crosses a lot of genres - fastasy, romance, dystopian. It was pretty slow until about 40% in, and the romance wasn't until 80% in, and the dystopia didn't really come in much at all for the majority of the book.

Regardless, if you're willing to trek through the first 40%, the rest of the book is a solid 4. Characters were in-depth and it's easy to care about what happens to them. The dragons aren't overly involved but still plot-relevant. There's plenty of room for the story to grow so I'll definitely pick up the next book.

Noisy Deadlines reviewed Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (The Empyrean, #1)

Another book that I enjoyed more than I thought I would

5.0 stars

Another book that I enjoyed more than I thought I would! We follow Violet SorrengaiI when she joins the Basgiath War College to become a dragonrider in the kingdom of Navarre. All she wanted was to become a scribe, but her mother, who is a war General, forces her to join the Dragonriders Quadrant, instead of the Scribe Quadrant. Just to keep family tradition (her older siblings were also dragonriders). I feel bad about the ruthlessness nature of this military school (there are zero concerns with safety and well-being of the cadets) but I got past that. Cadets die if they make mistakes or fail the crazy challenges and test assigned to them. They are prepared to bond with a dragon and become a rider. The bond is strong, rider and dragons can telepathically communicate. And if you're a rider and your dragon dies, you die! I'm loving the mental …