Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Nothing’s better than being able to listen to an audiobook when you’re doing mindless but necessary tasks. Whenever I was doing the dishes, cleaning, or cycling, I would put on this audiobook: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. I read this book earlier this year but didn’t really like it back then. I liked the plot, but I got really annoyed by some parts of the writing style. Some things are retold multiple times within the same chapter and sometimes within the same page.
Fourth Wing is about Violet Sorrengail. She has to choose what kind of education she is going to follow. She wants to go to the Scribes but her mother, the commanding general, orders her to go to the Riders. The riders learn to ride dragons. As if this isn’t already hard enough, Violet has a condition with makes her more injury-prone than others. She breaks her bones quite easily. There is only one way to get through the academy. Bond a dragon and become a dragon rider or die trying.
“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.”
Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
The book is from Violet’s point of view, and we follow her throughout her education. We see her falling in love and learning some well-hidden and world-changing secrets. There are certain events in the book, which I am not going to talk about because of spoilers, in which I would have loved the story from Xaden’s point of view. I am hoping that Rebecca Yarros will bring out this book from Xaden’s point of view. I will definitely buy that one.
“Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing. It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs - on the probabilities”
Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing
The book's ending is incredible, and I am sure that no one would expect it. I certainly didn’t. Even after having read this book before, I was still shocked by it. I had totally forgotten that that was going to happen.
I am glad I gave this book another chance, and I am going to continue this series. I will have to wait until the second half of May because then the audiobook will come out on Storytel.
I gave Fourt Wing a 4 star rating.
