The Fourth Wing- Book Review – Worth the hype or not?

Book Details

Title:- The Fourth Wing

Author:- Rebecca Yarros

Date published:- May 2nd 2023

No. of pages:- 500 pages

Genre:- Romance/Fantasy

Rating:-

Plot:- 4/5

Writing:- 4/5

Overall rating:- 4/5

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

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

Congratulations to Rebecca Yarros for winning Goodreads Choice award for The Fourth Wing! This book is one of the most anticipated books and is a huge trend in Booktoks, Amazon and Instagram, topping the bestselling charts. I have always wanted to get my hands on this book as I wanted to read this most hyped book of the century.

And finally I got the copy and started reading.

This whole review is based on my own opinion and different people have different tastes so I just you guys to know, I personally think this book doesn’t deserve that much of hype.

Violet Sorrengail is supposed to be a Scribe but at the last minute, her mother puts her to Riders Quadrant, where you need to go through hell in order to survive the Riders Quadrant. At the quadrant, Violet meets Xaden Riorsen, whose father was killed by Violet’s mother and who holds a grudge against the Sorrengail family. Xaden would seek justice for his father by killing Violet. The motto of Basgiath War College–graduate or die.

I think the concept of the whole story was fascinating–a school where they train you to fight in the war, train you to ride on the dragons. But I didn’t find nothing special about this book. One minute Xaden wans to kill Violet, the next day, they were lovers. There were spicy scenes towards the end of the book.

In the beginning, I found this book really boring. I nearly DNFed the book but then I don’t usually do DNF so I kept reading the book, hoping that there must be something in the book that would stand out, that might be the reason why this book worth so much hype. But I couldn’t find anything that is worth. Towards the middle of the book, I think the story got a little better even though it was a slow burn to me at first. The cliffhanger at the end was great and that actually made me want to read the next installment of the series Iron Flame.

Does this book worth the hype? I don’t think so. Over the years, some of the Booktoks that are showing off the books that are much hyped in my opinion is not deserved to be hyped. And the Fourth Wing is such a book. All in all, the book worth four stars.