Fourth Wing (The Empyrean #1)
Rebecca Yarros
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· 891 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 .
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- enemies to lovers 122
- fantasy 120
- magic 105
- war 95
- military 91
- disabilities & scars 81
- competent heroine 78
- new adult 77
- grumpy/cold hero 77
- take-charge heroine 77
- forced proximity 70
- first person pov 68
- independent heroine 64
- gifted/super-heroine 62
- high fantasy 61
- alpha male 61
- tortured hero 59
- slow burn 54
- warlord/commander hero 54
- warrior heroine 54
- forbidden love 53
- possessive hero 51
- sassy heroine 49
- height difference 49
- secret relationship 46
- college 45
- bad boys 37
- dangerous heroine 34
- m-f romance 24
- monsters 23
- love triangle 22
- fighter hero 16
- famous heroine 16
- paranormal 11
- men in uniform 9
- hurt/comfort 8
- political/court intrigue 6
- survival 5
- young adult 2
- suspense 2
- contemporary 2
- dystopian 1
- fated mates 1
- mystery 1
- angst 1
- historical 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- dark romance 1
- other man/woman 1
- queer romance 1
- betrayal 1
- found family 1
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- death / grief 55
- abuse 20
- past abuse 18
- animal death 12
- ableism 9
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The 'The Empyrean' series
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new adult · fantasy · magic · high fantasy · length-long · from hate to love · gifted heroine · independent heroine · bad boys · abuse · death · alpha male · monsters · hurt-comfort · forced proximity · strong heroine · tortured hero · first-person-pov · war · cold hero
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