Violet has been considered too fragile for such a profession. It’s dangerous, and no one thinks Violet can survive it: not her older sister, Mira, already a rider herself, and not her best friend, Dain, who is now a squad leader. Dragons themselves are picky, and even more cadets are killed by the dragons themselves, if the dragons find a candidate unworthy.
The training for new cadets is brutal, and many more die before they ever get a chance to find a dragon to bond with. Those who want to become dragon riders have to cross a dangerous parapet even to be admitted, and many don’t make it over. But instead of following her calling to the Scribe Quadrant, like her now-dead father, Violet has been told by her imposing mother that she will become a dragon rider or die trying. The warriors responsible for maintaining those wards, and defending the kingdom are the dragon riders-a group to which Violet has never aspired to belong. The borders are threatened by neighboring Poromiel’s griffin riders, which are only held at bay due to the wards set on Navarre’s borders. The medieval-feeling kingdom Navarre has been at war for years. If you haven’t picked it up yet, get ready for some late nights reading past bedtime-this one just keeps drawing you on for one more chapter.Īs the book opens, readers meet Violet Sorrengail, the youngest daughter of General Sorrengail, one of the leading officers in Navarre’s military.
But with all that’s new about the book, what’s most impressive is how Yarros takes familiar tropes and themes and presents them so well that the book is hard to put down. It’s in the new adult category, and it’s the first book of a new imprint of romantic fantasy: Entangled Publishing’s new Red Tower Books. Rebecca Yarros’s Fourth Wing has a lot of “new” qualifiers: it’s a new book in a brand new series.
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