Fourth Wing and Iron Flame
- porchswingreading
- May 3, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: May 9, 2024
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Fourth Wing
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.
I know I know these are not mystery or thriller books but they for me out of a reading slump for a little while so I'll take it.
I fell into the Fourth Wing trap. This is normally not my genre to read but it has a little bit of everything. Action, romance, supernatural, dragons.
The novel follows Violet Sorrengail as she enters the elite riders quadrant at Basgiath college. Now she never wanted to enter the riders quadrant. She wanted a nice quiet life in the scribe quadrant but when her mother who is the general insists she join the riders she can't say no.
The problem is that Violet is frail and has barely a chance to become a dragon rider. See dragons weed out the weak and Violet is the definition of weak.
The riders are put through brutal tests where a lot of them are killed. Then at the end the final test is at what is called Threshing where a dragon chooses a person. Or doesn't. The other candidates may kill each other. Yeah it's a brutal college to say the least.
On the very first test she comes across one of the most ruthless wingleaders Xaden who has every reason to hate her mother and want her dead. In fact a lot of people hate her mother and want her dead. She has to fight every step of the way. She leans on one of her oldest friends Dain who is in his second year. He becomes overly protective of her to the point of smothering.
Opportunities arise for her to bail and get out of the riders and join the scribes but by that point she's determined to prove a point not just to her mother, her enemies but also to herself.
She forges friendships with some unlikely people. And romance blossoms. Very very hot romance in my opinion.
The second book in the series is out. It's not as good as the first but still holds it's own. I hate it left me on a cliffhanger. The third will be out in January 2025 and the series is slated for five books. They are already talking about a TV series.
I'm not going to delve into the second book cause it'll have spoilers for the first book. But let's just say there's more action. You find out more of what is going on and what (shocker) the college and government is hiding from everyone.
So I'm going to give this series so far 5/5 stars 🤩 ✨ I'm absolutely in love with it. I already want to go back and re read the first book after reading the second because now I know some things I feel like I can read it again in a different light.
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