Fourth Wing

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. a rider without their dragon is dead.”

Welcome to the Fourth Wing!!

What is more than an infinity of stars? I'll give you the answer, it’s this book. Let me just start with saying I am a romance/dark romance fan through and through. The only other fantasy books I've ever read were the Acotar books and that series was so good. Easily one of my favorite series ever, but fourth wing? it was even better…literal chefs kiss🤌 I was hooked from the very first sentence to the very last. I've read one of rebecca’s romance books and i loved it, but her writing fantasy?! She did a really great job. This is easily one of my top reads of 2023. Fourth wing was action packed and the romance was amazing.

tropes:

-found family

-enemies to lovers

-slow burn

-“touch her, you die”

-morally grey mmc

-forced proximity

aesthetic:

-dragons

-academic setting

-divergent vibes

-dystopian fantasy

📖quick summary of the book:

this book is about violet sorrengail, the daughter of a high ranked general. most of her life she was practicing/training to be apart of the scribe quadrant because of her love for books and her intelligence, but her mother told her that she must follow in her siblings footsteps and become a dragon rider. violet is in no way prepared for that, but she ends up going to basgiath war college to do exactly what her mother asked of her. to become a dragon rider, you must pass all these very deadly challenges that are designed to kill off the weak. while violet is trying her very best to become a dragon rider…she‘s constantly fighting her attraction for xaden riorson (her enemy that she was told to stay away from). xaden is a well respected wingleader of the fourth wing and his one goal was to kill violet because of the family she belongs to, but what happens when her life suddenly becomes tethered to his?

💭my thoughts:

this book was so easy to follow and it was so fast paced. i was a little intimidated because the font was small and the chapters were longer than i usually prefer, but there was not a single page in this book that was boring. i’m usually the type to see how many pages are left in a chapter, but i simply did not care. i was fully consumed by this book and got totally lost in it. the action…it caused me a LOT of anxiety, but i ate that shit up. this book had my heart RACING. there were so many parts in this book that literally took my breath away…had me forgetting how to breathe. the romance!?! ♾️/10. the angst, the spice, the banter…literally everything you want for a romance plot. the writing was absolutely amazing. the descriptive writing omg…10/10. it was so easy to picture all of the different settings and picture everything that was happening. i felt like i was sitting in the front row watching this entire book unfold. this book has so much potential to be turned into a movie omg please😭cast theo james as xaden IMMEDIATELY and then cast me as violet🤭and then let’s just erase dain completely. i adored most of the characters in this book. i love when i fall in love with side characters just as much as main characters.

The last 100 pages of the book are the most interesting and I hope everyone reading this book to love it just like the was I loved it.

Credits to kendyl for the review

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