I requested this one from Netgalley because what fantasy fan doesn’t love a dragon book – I quickly discovered though that this wasn’t just a dragon book – it’s the best dragon book I have read in years. But sleep with one eye open because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.Īlliances will be forged. 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. She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise. 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. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. because dragons don’t bond to ‘fragile’ humans.

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.īut when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away. Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros