I have a feeling I am going to have a lot of people disagreeing with me, but Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is a terrible book, and I did not finish it.

Picture this if you will. A book with a main character as interesting as a clump of mud that falls under every book trope there possibly is. She is beautiful, but not like other girls. She has trained to be a scholar her entire life, but is somehow fit and able to take on the same challenges of people that have trained their entire life. She is the daughter of one of the most powerful riders in existence , AND she somehow pair bonds with the most powerful dragon in the world. That would be Violet, the female main character of this book.

The male main character, Xaden, is truthfully not much better.  Picture any dark broody character in a book that hates the female main character to start with and then realizes he actually likes her, and well, you have Xaden.

If I am honest, the problems I have with this book, truthfully, do not lie in the main characters. It lies with everything else.  For starters, the world this is set during a war, and one of the reasons they need riders so badly is because they are losing.  AND YET SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ATTEMPT TO BE A RIDER DIE!  This is something that I have been stuck on for a while, because it makes no damn sense.  I am sorry, but if you have a war in which you need people to fight in, having all but maybe three percent of the people willing to fight in it die because they are not a rider is ridiculous.  Even if these people cannot ride or bond with a dragon, doesn’t mean they cannot fight.

Another problem I had with this book, is Violet, or main character, points out all of the time how rare certain powers are, and how rare it is someone got a power like that.  Do you know how many people have these rare powers?  All of them.  All of them have rare powers.  If so many people have these rare powers, is it really that rare to get one of the powers?

Everything about this book was a trope within a trope and it was not good.  I understand it has thousands of 5 star reviews and truthfully, I am not sure why.  I ended up not finishing this book about halfway through because I truthfully couldn’t handle any more of it.

Overall – This was a boring predictable book that I truthfully did not like.  The writing was subpar and the storyline was predictable and boring.  I truthfully only think this book became popular because of the limited edition version of the book with the sprayed edges.  If you love this book, great.  I am glad someone could because I couldn’t. 

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean Book 1) – Rebecca Yarros

Cost* – eBook is $14.99 and Paperback is $25.99 and Hardback is $16.99. 

*Cost is based upon what the book cost when book review is published