Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)
Rebecca Yarros
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· 2285 ratings · 512 pages · Published: 02 May 2023
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 .
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- magic 147
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- grumpy/cold hero 112
- take-charge heroine 108
- new adult 107
- forced proximity 105
- competent heroine 104
- independent heroine 92
- gifted/super-heroine 90
- tortured hero 90
- high fantasy 87
- alpha male 86
- forbidden love 83
- warrior heroine 82
- warlord/commander hero 80
- college 80
- height difference 80
- possessive hero 78
- slow burn 72
- sassy heroine 72
- secret relationship 72
- bad boys 63
- m-f romance 62
- dangerous heroine 53
- love triangle 42
- fighter hero 38
- monsters 38
- famous heroine 38
- men in uniform 35
- political/court intrigue 30
- survival 27
- paranormal 22
- hurt/comfort 22
- betrayal 19
- found family 16
- vengeance 6
- class difference 6
- caretaking 6
- suspense 3
- young adult 2
- angst 2
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- fated mates 1
- mystery 1
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- death / grief 91
- abuse 41
- past abuse 40
- animal death 30
- ableism 28
- graphic violence 23
- animal abuse 11
- torture of side characters 5
- past child abuse 3
- body betrayal 3
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- Audiobook
- first person pov 99
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