Fourth Wing
2023
- fantasía
- fantasy
- ficción
- ficciones
- fiction
- romántica
- romance
- romántico
- joven adulto
- young adult fiction
The story
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.
What it’s like
Fast, propulsive prose that moves like a sprint through stone corridors and cold barracks, with dragon flight rendered in rushing wind, wingbeats and open sky. The sensory world is military and damp: frost on training grounds, smoke from forge fires, the metallic taste of fear, the weight of armor and bruises. Its vibe is adrenaline-charged and romantic, a steady pulse of banter, tension and heat, best suited to a long weekend read, a flight or a late night when you want to be swept along and can't put it down. The pacing is brisk and cliffhanger-driven, with chapters that end on a hook and a narrator whose sharp, wry voice keeps the grim stakes from feeling heavy. Its people are a determined, underdog young woman and a guarded, dangerous man slowly circling each other, surrounded by rivals who turn into allies and enemies. Intensity runs moderate to high: frequent fight scenes and training injuries, some graphic violence and deaths, and explicit sexual content. For readers who want dragons, enemies-to-lovers heat and a survival-school setting, and who can handle a steamy, violent YA-adjacent romance.
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