Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

Book Review

Title            Fourth Wing 
Author        Rebecca Yarros

Read Dates        2nd February 2024 - 10th February 2024

Rating                5 / 5

Format                Paperback

Blurb

Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College . . .

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.

Everyone at Basgiath has an agenda, and every night could be your last. So, sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

Review

For a book that I found so incredibly easy to rate, it has been incredibly difficult to find the words to review it. I have spent the last 3 days just staring at the book, still in shock over the ending.

At first, I thought it was just going to be another young adult fantasy book. I was happily proven incredibly wrong. There's action. There's lust. There's betrayal. There's one hell of a twist at the end. And it is that twist that has made this so damn hard to write.

When I finished the book, all I could do was stare at it. I couldn't form words (besides from the sporadic f-bomb, much to my partner's entertainment 😂). It was the fastest I've ever rated a book though.

I became part of the world. The story was written so well that it felt like you were there. I felt every emotion that Violet felt. I laughed with her, cried with her, fell with her.

I was worried that with all the hype this book received, especially from TikTok, that it wouldn't be enjoyable, or that I wouldn't find it enjoyable. This book absolutely lived up to all the hype. And I'm so glad I bought into the hype and read it.