Fourth Wing

I bought into the hype and got this from my local libary to see what all the fuss was about and man I am glad I didn't spend any actual money on this book. The writing was frankly terrible, I've read better written fanfiction, both in actual structure of the writing to the prose itself. Very little of this book surprised me, as soon as the rare dragon type was mentioned I knew Violet would bond with one. As soon as the big black dragon was mentioned I knew that she'd bond with him as well. Both Violet and Xaiden (if that's even how its spelled) were such mary-sue characters. There was such a chance to make more of their characters - have her overcome her physical weakness by anything other than “man up and get stronger” and to have Xaiden have any depth to his character at all would be great.

Special girl character, with her special hair gets special dragons and special dragon magic. And a special love interest.

The ‘romance'. What romance. He goes from hating her to wanting her on the flip of a switch. Their dragons being bonded was a poor excuse.

Sometimes the hype is a smoke screen. I am so glad I didn't spend any money on this book.