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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

4 reviews

hayzey's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Chronic illness, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Drug use, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

ericiusm's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.75

This is cringy edgy shit. Curse G. R. R. Martin for giving authors the great idea of killing characters off with ease, cause now every wanna be edgelord out there kills people left and right for the sake of gasps. Yarros is a horny teenager try hard that doesn’t understand worldbuilding, romance, fantasy and the military. Sometimes I wonder why my stupid brain gave me such powerful insecurities paired with perfectionism, cause without by now I would have been a best selling author of at least one poorly written fantasy trilogy…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

emsavors's review against another edition

fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

Rebecca Yarros really sat down and wrote a book which includes every possible trope ever. Manic pixie dream girl, not like the other girls, i’m no longer attracted to my best friend but i am attracted to the guy who wants to kill me. You’ll find all these and more. Also the ending is just the hunger games: catching fire.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

prairieraven's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.25

Doesn't live up to the hype but it is a cute,  simple read for something that is military school for teens with dragons. The dragons are neat. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism