“Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros
Okay, I finally finished this last night and I just have to share. This book feels like you’re on a rollercoaster and I never got bored when reading this book. At almost 500 pages, it normally takes a bit for me to read a book of that size but I didn’t have any problems devouring this book. I read this book a lot faster than I normally do when it comes to a book of that size.
The book follows Violet…..she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a scribe (people who work in a library or archives and keep a record of history). But her mother, who happens to be a rider herself and a general, decides she’s going to enter the rider’s quadrant instead. Mira, Violet’s older sister and a rider herself, argues that Violet doesn’t belong among the riders and to leave her among the scribes where Violet has already been training her whole life. But their mother puts her foot down and off to the riders quadrant Violet goes. So the book follows Violet’s time during her first year at the riders quadrant (your time in the riders quadrant is suppose to last three years, assuming you survive your time there).
If you like dragons, magic, war colleges, romance……..then this might be the book for you! {Note: I think this book is for adults only.}
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.