Fourth Wing (Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

4.7 of 5 stars 27 ratings • 5 reviews • 54 shelved 2023 Fantasy Pick
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Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today 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.

FairyLoot exclusive edition, featuring:

  • Foil on the hardcover
  • Stencilled edge
  • Reverse dust jacket
  • Signed by the author
  • Publish Date September 2023 (first published 2 May 2023)
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Piatkus Books
  • Edition FairyLoot Exclusive
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 512
  • Language English
  • Special Signed Sprayed Edges