Book of the Month Preview: ‘Fourth Wing’ by Rebecca Yarros
On May 2nd, 2023, the world of fantasy books changed with Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. If you’ve been on Goodreads or TikTok, it has been all anyone has been talking about. There have been other fantasy series like Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas that have a huge fanbase, but now, Fourth Wing is all the rage.
Rebecca Yarros was smart to stretch the first two books out because Iron Flame will be released on November 7th, 2023. Yarros gave readers enough time to dive into the world she created and left them wanting more for the rest of the year.
If you’re a fantasy lover, then join us this month as we cover the first book in the five-book series!
Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and she adores all things chocolate, coffee and paleo. She has adored reading all her life, and writing naturally evolved from her love of late nights and promises of one more page.
She is also a military wife of almost 20 years. During her husband’s deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, she was devouring a book a day, and during his third deployment, she finally wrote her own. Together they have six kids. If she’s not writing or playing guitar, she’s usually tying hockey skates for her four boys, or sneaking a John Hughes marathon with her two daughters.
Synopsis:
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.
What Fourth Wing Offers
dragons
enemies to lovers
signets and magic
power in numbers
friendships
fables and lore
political corruption
Join Our Book Chat
Maude and our community will dive into the first half of Fourth Wing on Thursday, September 14th and the second half on Thursday, September 28th. Join us on Twitch from 5-7 p.m. PT.
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