Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
I am a sucker for a good fantasy book in a school setting. I am sure a lot of that is due to Harry Potter, but I think an academic setting provides a good skeleton for a story. They almost always start shortly before a school year, and run all the way until a final exam. I am sure Fourth Wing will invite many comparisons to Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, but it reminded me quite a bit more of The Poppy War by […]
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
I was seeing Fourth Wing (2023) by Rebecca Yarros all over the place, including NPR’s Best Books List. Fantasy is not a go-to genre for me, but I was starting to get some FOMO and decided I needed to see for myself. Fourth Wing is the first book in a planned series of five. Right now, only the first two books have been published. I wasn’t sure if I would like it when I started, and there were a couple scenes in the beginning that had be rolling my eyes. […]
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha
These books both had dragons, and I need to crank out reviews before the deadline, so let’s go! Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros This is the sequel to the incredibly popular Fourth Wing. Fourth Wing was definitely not a perfect book, and I understand a lot of the hate, but I enjoyed the Hell out of it. The sequel picks up immediately after the cliffhanger ending from the first book, and wasn’t it refreshing to only have to wait six months for this? People who […]
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
My sister and her husband wanted me to read Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros – neither of them read much (if any) fantasy, so I was curious what had made them pay attention to this novel. After thinking long and hard about it, I believe it was two things: 1. Hype 2. Accessibility First, the publisher’s description: “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 […]
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Fourth Wing is the story of Violet Sorrengail, a cadet in the Basgiath War College. She was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, but her mother, a general, decided that she had to enter the Rider Quadrant. DRAGON RIDERS? I AM SO IN! A lot of Cadets die during the training, and Violet isn’t physically up to a lot of the challenges, because she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS). That is never explicitly stated in the book, but a close friend of mine has it, so […]
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Bingo Square: Take the Skies (has dragons and riders) Violet Sorrengail has always known she would not be a dragon rider like her brother and sister before her, she’s far too delicate and would die even attempting to train. She’s going to be a scribe and hang out with books and history, where it’s safe. But then her mother, a general, decrees that Violet will join the cadets after all. And now Violet has to survive various tests – as well as murderous students – […]
