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Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

Rebecca Yarros

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: June 30, 2023

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Sep 17, 2023 Otis Chandler rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, fantasy

I wanted something light and I heard this is the most popular book on Goodreads right now, so I tried it. I get it. It's going for Hunger Games mixed with an older version of How To Train Your Dragon, and maybe some Enders Game (war games by kids), and Game of Thrones (sex and dragons) mixed in. It's fast paced and fun. I am fully confident it will make a great movie someday, and it's a bummer book 2 isn't out!

It's not my demographic as the protagonist is a 20 year old female and there is a quit ...more

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Sep 08, 2023 Dara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, pov-single, dragons-regular

Well what do you know, this lived entirely up to the hype. Small, physically weak Violet expected to become a scribe (a keeper of history) until her mother--a formidable general in the fascist (with dragons!) military--forces her into fascist dragon rider school where she'll likely die, if not by her fellow students' hands, then by the dragons themselves who value strength over all else.

Fortunately for our heroine, she has strength of mind and will in abundance, even if her body can't always kee ...more

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Oct 12, 2025 Gloriana rated it liked it

Shelves: romance, fantasy

It wasn't really until the dragons showed up, and spoke directly our heroine's head, that I fully understood what the hype was all about this book. Up until that point it had seemed a bit derivative, with another magical school out to kill its students, and a typical enemies-to-lovers set up between Violet in the small-but-smart part and Xaden in the shadow daddy role. However, the dragons did elevate this and make it much more original, although I do still think the book caters more to romance ...more

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Aug 02, 2023 Amy Ravenel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, owned-books

This book was an interesting read for me. I actually really enjoyed it, but there were parts that moved a bit slowly for me. And then came the last bit of the book, and the story really started to roll. So, yes, I'll be reading the second book.

Overall, while the first book took a bit for me to get into, I did enjoy it. ...more

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