Fourth Wing

DNF @ chapter 5, 1.28.24

I don't like to leave a book unfinished, but life is too short to hate-read a book I'm not enjoying. I made it to chapter 5, and gave up. It got rave reviews, but it did not live up to the hype. It's promoted as a “new adult” fantasy, but it reads like a modern day romance, with dragons thrown in for spice. The modern day speech was rather jarring, for a presumably medieval fantasy setting. After the third or fourth use of the word “fuck” I did a search, and that particular expletive shows up 264 times. The world building is lacking, the foreshadowing is ridiculously obvious, and most of the characters are just there. The characters that are described are presumably going to be part of a love triangle, as we only hear how hot they are, in painful detail.