- Name: Fourth Wing
- Author: Rebecca Yarros
- Series: Empyrean #1
- Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, YA, Romance, Adventure, Magic
Synopsis:
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
Review:
“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.”
Fourth Wing is a story of a physically weak/fragile girl who was forced to become a dragon rider or die. A story of a girl who has to fight to live and that too up to her family’s expectation, especially in a place where there’s enemies everywhere. Well, we have seen this story before, a weak kid who ended up becoming the most powerful after years of perseverance, and sheer will, yeah, just pick up any manga or YA fantasy, you will find it.
“There is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten.”
What makes this story so different from all others is the protagonist herself, she has the will and determination to live, but unlike other characters, she resorts to her brain to make up for the fragile body. She is smart and she knows her limits, but she goes further to strengthen herself. I couldn’t hate the protagonist because she was weak, cuz she was no damsel in distress, she was weak because she was sheltered through her whole life and she never wanted to become a rider, she wanted to be a scribe. And why would a scribe need brute strength.
“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
The writing style was good and totally readable, i couldn’t put it down because it pulled me in and I couldn’t let it go, and it is the reason indeed, why i gave it 4 🌟. I started this book with no expectations, and I believe that’s why i was able to enjoy it. Rather than picking it up for its beautiful cover or hype, pick it up because you wanna read something, something that you might enjoy.
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