Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Summary
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Enter the dragon-rider academy where survival means bonding with beasts or death. "Fourth Wing" topped charts as 2023's Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Romantasy, captivating readers with its feminist themes and war complexities. Ready to soar with Violet Sorrengail?
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A Kingdom of Fire and Shadow
In the militaristic kingdom of Navarre, twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail arrives at Basgiath War College with a death sentence hanging over her head. Unlike other candidates eagerly choosing their paths, Violet-with her asthma and tendency to freeze under pressure-should be entering the scholarly Scribe Quadrant. Instead, her powerful mother, General Sorrengail, has forced her into the deadly Riders Quadrant, where cadets either graduate bonded to dragons or die trying. The brutality becomes immediately apparent when a fellow candidate falls to his death attempting to cross a treacherous parapet-the first of many casualties in a place where nearly twenty percent die on the first day alone. Instructors don't even pause to acknowledge the loss. Those who survive face years of challenges where only about a quarter will live to graduation. There are no safety nets, no second chances, and certainly no mercy for weakness. In this environment of "fatalistic hedonism and brutal military efficiency," cadets form intense bonds knowing any day could be their last, while the constant presence of dragons overhead serves as a reminder of both the power they seek to harness and the deadly price of failure.
Enemies on All Sides
Intellect Over Brute Force
An Unprecedented Dragon Bond
Forbidden Hearts and Dangerous Desires
Lightning Unleashed
Truth Beyond the Wards
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