Fourth Wing (Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

4.64 of 5 stars 28 ratings • 5 reviews • 56 shelved 2023 Fantasy Pick
Book cover for Fourth Wing

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"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy." --Booklist, starred review

"Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end... A fantasy like you've never read before." #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

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.

LIMITED FIRST PRINT EDITION―featuring spray-painted edges with stenciled flying dragons, as well as gorgeously detailed map endpapers.

  • ISBN10 1649374046
  • ISBN13 9781649374042
  • Publish Date 2 May 2023
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Entangled Publishing, LLC
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 512
  • Language English
  • Special Sprayed Edges