Fourth Wing · Rebecca Yarros

Abstract

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. However, the commanding general—also her mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller and more fragile than everyone else, 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. In Basgiath War College, sleep is a luxury and graduation is a death sentence.