Thoughts on Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Wow!

Fourth Wing was a Christmas present and I waited a few days, as I finished another book, to open it, and kept reading and reading and reading, until this afternoon. It blew me away. Yarros takes such familiar fantasy themes as dragons and dragon riders as defenders, a school for their training, and makes it her own.

Enter Violet, an unwilling student at the Basgiath War College, where she has a target on her back, thanks to her mother, a general in the Navarrian dragon corps, and her actions in suppressing a rebellion. This mother forced Violet to enter the war college; she was meant to be a scribe. Enter Yaden, the son of the rebels who were all executed. Yes, it was easy to figure out these two, who hated each other at first, were meant for each other. But how they got there, through their dragons, to whom riders are bonded, is love story, but it is a story of survival, self-awareness, coming of age, and discovering what is true and what is a lie.

Highly recommended.



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