Fourth Wing. Ohhhh Fourth Wing. The chokehold this book has had me in. I could not stop consuming content about it for the longest time. And if I’m being completely honest, I’m still consuming content about it. I follow the subreddits, I devour any tiny morsel Rebecca gives us, hell I even started listening to a podcast about Fourth Wing.
I’ve been a romantasy lover for as long as I can remember. It started with my obsession of Harry Potter, lasted with me through Twilight, and now I’ve progressed to full blown romantasy with faeries and dragons and shifters. I’ve read so many shifter series I truly cannot keep track of them anymore. The only way I can keep track of even half the books I’ve read is because of goodreads.
But onto Fourth Wing. We get thrown right into the world almost as abruptly as Violet gets thrown into the Riders’ Quadrant. While I’m a sucker for a good world building exposition, and we do get plenty of the world building in the book itself, there’s something fun about being transported into a totally different world. It reminds me a little bit of traveling to another country and not knowing much about the country other than the pretty sites to see, where you’re just thrust into a completely different culture.
The dynamic between our two main characters is TENSE at first, and honestly it stays pretty tense, but for completely other reasons (Shall I get the wingleader?) They’ve got the enemies to lovers trope down pretty solid, but the eventual lovers aspect doesn’t come out of left field.
I’ve seen a lot of criticism online about how Violet is always reminding us of her fragility; I don’t believe it’s overly done, but I think it’s used as a reminder of hey, Violet IS frail and she IS damaged but she doesn’t let it get to her. While I’m not someone that has a chronic illness like Rebecca Yarros or Violet, I think it’s indicative of the struggles they overcome daily simply just to function like a “normal” person.
Violet has been thrown into the most brutal training quadrant with minimal preparation and is expected to survive. And survive our girl does. She uses her scribe training in unconventional ways to help her persevere, which I think is another testament to making adaptations to the world of those with chronic illness.
Now I’m not typically an audiobook girlie, but I had put a hold on my libby account for the audiobook because I didn’t know if it was going to be another overhyped TikTok book. When I tell you, I could. not. stop. listening. to this damn audiobook. It is truthfully the only thing I listened to and I think I finished it in less than three days, considering it’s a nearly 22 hour audiobook. I immediately downloaded the Iron Flame kindle book and devoured that. It was a downward spiral from there. I’m writing this shortly after the announcement of Onyx Storm and when I tell you I haven’t preordered a book faster, with the exception of my Lucy Score books.
I think it’s a given to say that I would absolutely recommend this book and this series. I have been utterly annoying to all my friends asking if they’ve read it yet.
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