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Loading... Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1) (edition 2023)by Rebecca Yarros (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A coming of age novel set in a fantasy world of dragons, eminent death during training in a dragon fighting warrior school. It’s also a love triangle but no hot steamy sex until the end but what a build up of Xeden vs ? for Violet’s bed. It’s also about protecting the old order and lies. The narrative is a bit long winded. Reminded me of the old Dragons of Pern series. ( ) This was a very very fun, but distinctly unoriginal read. The world/setting was a mix of Divergent and Hunger Games, and judging by the reviews, a bunch of other YA books I haven't read. I'm not going to list all of the similarities I found because there are too many. It's not just similar tropes that are used - there are some copy/paste characters AND character dynamics AND settings. And considering other reviews that listed more copy/pasted stuff from other books, I honestly can't tell if there is a thing that is original in this book. That said, I really did enjoy reading it. It drew me in and I had trouble concentrating on anything else until I finished it, and I'll read the next book for sure. I want to give it 2 stars, but I'd rate my enjoyment of it more. So I'll settle on 2.5 for now, even though it doesn't really feel right. Violet is making her way into the dragon quadrant despite her wishes otherwise. Scholarly and fragile, she fights her way through a school of not just hard knocks but deadly consequences. The reward would be to become a dragon rider. The reward for failure is a fatality. Violet is a brittle thing at first but she is determined and courageous. I loved watching her grow and level the playing field with each new challenge. The electrically intimate romance that developed along the way didn't hurt. I look forward to reading the sequel. no reviews | add a review
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Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . . 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. Alliances will be forged. Lives will be lost. Traitors will become allies . . . or even lovers. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die. No library descriptions found. |
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