Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros
- Release Date: 2023-05-02
- Genre: Fantasy
Description
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book
"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." —Booklist, starred review
"Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end... A fantasy like you've never read before." ―#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros
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 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.
The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 Fourth Wing
Book #2 Iron Flame
Reviews
Finally a heroine with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
5By asildroffopsThe Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is a romantic fantasy story about a young woman with a chronic illness/disability who is thrown into a succeed or die situation in a training program for dragon riders. The book is told from her perspective as she experiences the numerous challenges and dangers of a program where cadets have to survive the various life threatening trials and defend themselves from their peers. Violet enters the program expecting to die, considered to be weak by many, but she has the strength of character to endure what others could not. Violet’s early training as a scribe has also given her the critical thinking skills to face conclusions that everything she has been taught might not be true. Unlike some stories, which have to do some world building before the reader gets the lay of the land and an investment in the story, this book grabbed me at the very first word. There were so many twists and turns, action, suspense, emotion, and slow burn then white hot sexual chemistry. At times, I felt that the emotion the story provoked was similar to the edge of your seat feeling The Hunger Games series evoked. This is my first novel by this author, but it appears that this was her first foray into fantasy and I think she has found her calling. I cannot wait for the next installment of this series. I highly recommend this book to all readers mature enough to read the more explicit violence and spicy sections of the book. I believe that it will have universal appeal just as series such as Divergent or The Hunger Games.INCREDIBLY THRILLING STORy
5By kas0721I knew this book was going to be good from the start but the chokehold it has on me has me screaming for the next book to come out already! Incredible author, incredible plot, in love with the twists and turns and the relationships these characters have. I CANT WAIT FOR BOOK 2!Forth wing
5By bugbugaz12So so so amazing!!!! Like seriously the best book I’ve read in a long time! So we’ll written! Absolutely love can’t wait for more!!! 🫶🏻❤️Everything.
5By Hopeful JayThis book is literally everything. Easily one of my top 5. Each chapter has you wanting more. The action. Suspense. Intensity. Fire. Romance. I cannot wait until November for the next book!! It is a MUSTSo glad I read this
5By sotomillerFull of adventure, it’s like a mix between Divergent and Game of Thrones. Love the characters and dragons.Just WOW
5By shelbz1228I have the biggest book hangover after Fourth Wing. The characters and their connections. The storyline. The DRAGONS. The slow burn. One of those books you want to devour in one sitting but also take your time because you don’t want it to be over.Don’t think twice and just read it!
5By SHAY789*Honestly, I don’t even know what made me hesitate, but I’m glad I didn’t listen to it! This book was such an amazing ride. Violet is a small powerhouse who beats all the odds against her! The storytelling and characters will blow you away and make you feel so connected. It’ll also have you hanging on till your last breath. I’m so happy I read it, and I’m telling you that you should too!LOVE LOVE LOVE
5By lieselbug 🐛I loved this book, it was a reminder of how fun reading can be! 🥹❤️🤩 Right from page one I was hooked!! I finished it in 2 days and I have never had a reading hangover so bad! November cannot come soon enough, I NEED book 2 NOW😭Obsessed
5By MGuasco3No need to explain. Just read it.should be illegal for a book to be this good
5By jftkofsone of the most madly addictive and obsessively exceptional books i have read in a long time. absolutely hooked from beginning to end. the slow burn, the plot twists, the poetry, i ate up every detail of this book. if you’re debating reading it know you will be up all night unwilling to put it down. OBSESSED!
