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A review by nicoleterego
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
This book's hype is criminal.
Listing off rants off the top of my head:
- Lots of things not making sense
- Worldbuilding? They don't know her.
- Not so triangle love triangle (cause it's so obvious who she's going to be with duh)
- Predictable plots, like a mediocre YA mixtape. Meh.
- Supposedly smart main character, but she's just dumb all the time.
- Xaden's cringe nickname for Violet. Subtracting 0.25 to my rating for that level of corny.
- Omegaverse (???) thing going on somewhere in the middle. Questionable writing decision.
- Badly writen fight scenes.
- Plot holes everywhere, had me like "???" so many times.
- Dragging chapters should've just been replaced with actual world building, maybe idk- history? politics? I don't understand a damn thing outside the rider's quadrant. They can't make me care about the things going on outside because I do not understand it's history! Again, worldbuilding!
The only good things I like about it:
- Dragons! Specially Tairn and Andarna – oh I love them.
- There was a moment after treshing that I enjoyed genuinely but then it started going downhill again after a few chapters.
- They actually succeeded in making me care for Liam's death (which I totally foreseen coming).
- Apparently she has a chronic illness of sorts, idk though if it was a proper representation.
I honestly want to like this book because it has so much potential. It has every elements I like in a fantasy genre but the author just doesn't know how to execute that.
Listing off rants off the top of my head:
- Lots of things not making sense
- Worldbuilding? They don't know her.
- Not so triangle love triangle (cause it's so obvious who she's going to be with duh)
- Predictable plots, like a mediocre YA mixtape. Meh.
- Supposedly smart main character, but she's just dumb all the time.
- Xaden's cringe nickname for Violet. Subtracting 0.25 to my rating for that level of corny.
- Omegaverse (???) thing going on somewhere in the middle. Questionable writing decision.
- Badly writen fight scenes.
- Plot holes everywhere, had me like "???" so many times.
- Dragging chapters should've just been replaced with actual world building, maybe idk- history? politics? I don't understand a damn thing outside the rider's quadrant. They can't make me care about the things going on outside because I do not understand it's history! Again, worldbuilding!
The only good things I like about it:
- Dragons! Specially Tairn and Andarna – oh I love them.
- There was a moment after treshing that I enjoyed genuinely but then it started going downhill again after a few chapters.
- They actually succeeded in making me care for Liam's death (which I totally foreseen coming).
- Apparently she has a chronic illness of sorts, idk though if it was a proper representation.
I honestly want to like this book because it has so much potential. It has every elements I like in a fantasy genre but the author just doesn't know how to execute that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Ableism