Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)
Rebecca Yarros
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· 1574 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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- enemies to lovers 152
- magic 131
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- military 123
- disabilities & scars 111
- new adult 99
- grumpy/cold hero 99
- competent heroine 96
- take-charge heroine 95
- forced proximity 92
- first person pov 90
- independent heroine 83
- gifted/super-heroine 79
- high fantasy 78
- alpha male 77
- tortured hero 75
- forbidden love 73
- warrior heroine 72
- possessive hero 69
- warlord/commander hero 69
- height difference 68
- slow burn 67
- college 67
- sassy heroine 64
- secret relationship 61
- bad boys 53
- m-f romance 50
- dangerous heroine 45
- monsters 36
- love triangle 34
- fighter hero 31
- famous heroine 31
- men in uniform 24
- political/court intrigue 22
- survival 21
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- past abuse 34
- animal death 26
- ableism 22
- graphic violence 16
- animal abuse 8
- torture of side characters 1
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The 'The Empyrean' series
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