An Instant New York Times Bestseller
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“Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros’ Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy.” —Booklist, starred review
“Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end… A fantasy like you’ve never read before.” ―#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout
Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros
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.
The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 Fourth Wing
Book #2 Iron Flame
yay!
HOLY SHIT. that was SO good. I cant wait for the next book
This book has me on my toes, I love how well written it is
Wow. Ok this book is AMAZING. Even that is an understatement. I don’t care if you despise fantasy or don’t like plots with mythical creatures because it isn’t realistic, READ. THIS. BOOK. NOW. Do it. You’ll understand later. This book is arguably the best I have read of all time. I am begging for you to release the second in the series on this website. The only thing is that the series is incomplete which means I’m gonna have to wait a few years to find out how it ends 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
This book is amazing, AMAZING!!!
…why do people like this?
I just finished chapter 19, and it hasn’t been that good. The prose seems very childish, coming from someone who’s younger than the character narrating. She swears a ridiculous amount and uses modern slang even though this is a medieval fantasy. People are literally still using QUILLS.
The characters aren’t really interesting enough to make up for the prose, either. Xaden, Dain and Violet are distant enough from each other, but I’ve seen the exact same characters in different books. Besides them, every (non-teacher) character so far has either been the sassy best friend or an unrealistically deranged antagonist. None of them have a distant voice, or personality.
Also, I hear something’s going to happen with Liam. I won’t spoil it, but I just think it’s funny that he’s only appeared, like, twice this whole time.
On the positive side, I like the dragons. It is a bit silly when they swear, though. Could have done without that. If you’re a CoHo girly and don’t have much experience with fantasy, you’ll probably like this. It’s just not hitting for me, I guess.
I have no idea why people like this book. I can see the appeal and the draw, but once I began reading, I was already heavily disappointed by chapter fourteen. I couldn’t believe it was a REAL, PUBLISHED book. I can personally write better prose than this and I’m not super talented. The story itself isn’t bad– or lets say the IDEA isn’t bad. The execution however, is unfortunately horrendous. Me and my friend laughed our asses off reading this because we thought it was a joke, until I saw that this book was published by not only a polished author…but also by a big (publishing) house. I don’t know if it’s because I’m primarily a fantasy reader, but this was just too bad for me to continue. All of your opinions listed are completely valid, and you’re not the only one. The few reasonable one star reviews on Goodreads even LISTED out the books the author basically copied and pasted from. The Hunger Games, Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, DIvergent…etc. It’s insane. The characters are all too stereotypical to take seriously and I found Violet to be excessively annoying. And this book is NOT YA? It’s New Adult? I’m seventeen, and no one in my age group acts like that. Violet behaves like a middle schooler that’s thirsting over her fifteenth crush of the week.
Good Lord.
Hooray to the millions of people who unironically enjoy this though. I can’t imagine coming back to this unless I need another good laugh. I’m so happy I never bought the physical copy. I always force myself to finish physical books.
then can u recc a good book?
better than fourth wing
I also love the dragons. All the dragons are known in the book as scary beings that can roast pathetic humans in a blink of an eye, which frankly, is pretty awesome in my opinion…
I love how Andarna and Tairn are pretty different from the other dragons. Tairn is so grumpy and sarcastic that he makes me laugh and Andarna is basically like a little kid.
As someone who loves rofan and such, I think this is a cute read. It’s no LOTR but hey, sometimes you just need to turn off your brain and enjoy a story without being too critical. I do think Violet is super thirsty but as a 22 y/o, it just be like that sometimes lolol xd I definitely understand some stories are so bad they’re unreadable, but I genuinely think this is not one of those stories. Can’t wait for the rest <3
Here is the second book: https://readfreebooksonline.org/books/iron-flame-the-empyrean-book-2/