Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)
Rebecca Yarros
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 1245 ratings · 512 pages · Published: 02 May 2023

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 .
Tagged as:
- fantasy 140
- enemies to lovers 135
- magic 117
- war 111
- military 108
- disabilities & scars 96
- new adult 89
- take-charge heroine 87
- grumpy/cold hero 86
- competent heroine 86
- forced proximity 80
- first person pov 78
- independent heroine 73
- gifted/super-heroine 70
- high fantasy 68
- alpha male 68
- tortured hero 68
- forbidden love 63
- warrior heroine 63
- possessive hero 60
- warlord/commander hero 60
- slow burn 59
- height difference 59
- sassy heroine 57
- college 57
- secret relationship 52
- bad boys 47
- dangerous heroine 40
- m-f romance 38
- monsters 30
- love triangle 29
- fighter hero 25
- famous heroine 24
- men in uniform 18
- paranormal 16
- hurt/comfort 14
- political/court intrigue 14
- survival 13
- found family 5
- betrayal 3
- young adult 2
- suspense 2
- angst 2
- dystopian 1
- fated mates 1
- contemporary 1
- mystery 1
- historical 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 69
- abuse 29
- past abuse 27
- animal death 20
- ableism 16
- graphic violence 7
- animal abuse 4
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The 'The Empyrean' series
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