Fourth Wing

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Rebecca Yarros: Fourth Wing (Hardcover, 2023, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

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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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 …

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

Definitly more romance than fantasy

I was hoping this series would be similar to Samantha Shannon's Priory of the Orange Tree. I was recommended this series by several friends, since it had battles and dragons that were written more akin to gods and less like pets. Which is something I appreciate in narratives. This was admittedly my own fault. As all of these friends are serial Romance readers.

That being said, this isn't a bad book! I thoroughly enjoyed the romance building and pay offs... But my GOD was this a thirsty book. The amount of objectifying of the masculine characters done by the feminine characters could bridge the gender pay gap. I felt like I needed to walk around with a spray bottle and blast all of the characters in the face with it every other chapter.

The world building seems to take second seat to the romance, which isn't unexpected given it's true …

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

Drachen, Drama und ein Hauch zu viel Erotik

Ich verstehe jetzt, warum Fourth Wing so einen Hype ausgelöst hat – denn es ist tatsächlich ein Buch, das man nur schwer aus der Hand legen kann. Der Einstieg ist rasant, das Setting an der Drachenreiter-Akademie atmosphärisch dicht, und die Spannung zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die Handlung. Besonders gelungen fand ich, wie sich nach und nach das politische Netz um die Hauptfiguren verdichtet und wie die Autorin es schafft, trotz des typischen Akademie-Settings überraschende Wendungen einzubauen.

Violet ist eine Hauptfigur, mit der man mitfühlt – nicht zu perfekt, mit Ecken und Kanten, die glaubwürdig wirken. Ihre Entwicklung hat mich überzeugt, und auch die Nebenfiguren fand ich weitgehend gut gezeichnet, insbesondere Xaden, dessen ambivalente Haltung bis zum Schluss interessant bleibt. Die Drachen selbst sind nicht nur beeindruckende Kampfmaschinen, sondern haben Persönlichkeit – ein echter Pluspunkt!

Was mir allerdings nicht ganz so gut gefallen hat: Die intimen Szenen zwischen …

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

complicated feelings

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Another book that I enjoyed more than I thought I would

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 …