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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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belleslibrary1012's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Man oh man, what to say. For starters, the reason I even thought of reading this, as I don't buy into super popular reads, is a friend of mine described it in this way: "The Hunger Games...but with dragons." Sold. Immediately sold. From the intricate world building, to the political intrigue, and of course, the love story, this book had its claws in me the entire time. I stopped reading all my other books to keep in this one. The character development was second to none and I thoroughly enjoy when an author's words have me laugh, cheer, and cry alongside the story. This entire concept is brilliant and I am very anxious to keep diving into this. Well done.

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chronic_listener's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Total twists and turn and surprises. I loved the main character being a differently abled person.

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puzzledp3nguin's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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jwillow13's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book, in my honest opinion and not meant to hurt anyone who really loved this book, was very mid. This book also has a "Enemies to Lovers trope" however, its honestly one of the weakest ones. I also was a little disappointed with how little there had to do with the dragons in this book. There was also an incredible lack of world building in this book. We get like 2 chapters of world building that are so painstakingly forced into the book that I immediately forgot what was written in those chapters. I still have no idea why this continent (planet?) are at war to begin with and why it has lasted as long as it did. I went into this book hearing all the hype about it and was the most put down by the continuity of the chapters.

For example, towards the beginning of the book when Violet was told to run away from a character because she was about to be caught, she runs and that's the end of the chapter. The beginning of the next chapter just completely skipped a month in the timeline without resolving her running away. There was no resolution. There are multiple moments where the chapters just have a random time skip from what is happening at the end of a previous chapter and then skips like a month or a couple of months at the beginning of the next chapter. It feels like the book was missing chapters in that sense.

It made it very hard to read this book because of all the skips in the timeline that were not very well executed. The last 120 pages or so were the best of the whole book because there was not skipping around. I bought the second book when I bought the first book so I do plan on continuing the series and I hope that the second book is better, if not, I do not believe that I will be able to finish this series when the next book comes out.

Again, this is all my opinion so don't come at me for really not enjoying the authors writing style and "fast paced writing" without giving us actual world building or resolving situations, and just skipping ahead a few weeks or months in the storyline because she didn't want a 700+ page book.

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yourfavbook_girly's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

When Liam died all I wanted to do was cry, still not over the fact my favourite body guard died of violet

Loved this book, Rebecca yarros you are my idol, I loved the plots, the twists, the shockers, the cliffhangers, how everything ended together, a classic enemies to lovers, loved the fact that it was an enemies lovers from their parents wars, can't wait for the rest of the books, dying for them currently, already finished iron flame the exact day I finished fourth wing. Loved this book can't wait for the rest!!

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