12-22-2023, 03:14 PM
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
This is the big hot new fantasy book. It's a bit of a bodice ripper as well. I could also see echoes of so many other fantasy tropes in there as well.
It's a school for magic, but the magic in this case is dragons. It's also a brutal school where students are expected to die from day one. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Violet, who thought she was going to be a scholar until her mother, who is the head of the military, decides she should join the decidedly more dangerous dragon rider school. Violet also has physical ailments that make her smaller than her classmates and her bones are really brittle from a childhood disease. And everybody in the school wants to kill her.
Of course through her wit and courage, she manages to excel. She also falls for the bad boy of the school, Xander. They both hate each other until they don't. There is a lot of graphic sex towards the end of the book. And the sex is the best most climactic sex ever.
The book covers Violet's first year in school. Since there are three years of schooling, plenty more books to come. There is also a threat to the realm which is why everybody is being churned through the dragon school.
I did become engage towards the end as the move towards the climactic scenes where Violet really gets to show her skills and now I'm waiting in the library queue for the next book.
This is the big hot new fantasy book. It's a bit of a bodice ripper as well. I could also see echoes of so many other fantasy tropes in there as well.
It's a school for magic, but the magic in this case is dragons. It's also a brutal school where students are expected to die from day one. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Violet, who thought she was going to be a scholar until her mother, who is the head of the military, decides she should join the decidedly more dangerous dragon rider school. Violet also has physical ailments that make her smaller than her classmates and her bones are really brittle from a childhood disease. And everybody in the school wants to kill her.
Of course through her wit and courage, she manages to excel. She also falls for the bad boy of the school, Xander. They both hate each other until they don't. There is a lot of graphic sex towards the end of the book. And the sex is the best most climactic sex ever.
The book covers Violet's first year in school. Since there are three years of schooling, plenty more books to come. There is also a threat to the realm which is why everybody is being churned through the dragon school.
I did become engage towards the end as the move towards the climactic scenes where Violet really gets to show her skills and now I'm waiting in the library queue for the next book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm