Wow, I’m so excited to announce that I’ve finally filmed a reading vlog!!! This is super exciting because I filmed it for reading Fourth Wing, so I got to read such an awesome book while also recording my priceless reactions. I’m editing the video together now and will be posting it soon as my first-ever post on my tgg channel. I’m so incredibly excited for you guys to see it!!
But, I also wanted to write a review for Fourth Wing ’cause it just wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t and, boy—do I have a lot to say! I loved the book and if you go watch the video on my channel you can how much I was invested in the story. I’m planning to create a book review video for it, but nothing’s been planned currently, so that may not happen. Don’t be mad at me if you don’t see a video for that on the channel. So, if that doesn’t happen, I want to share my cohesive review in some way and this is the best!
I loved the book for a lot of different reasons, all of which I’ll cover, but mostly because it gave the best vibes of all my favorite books and movies. I got super strong Divergent vibes, and I’m a hard-core Divergent girlie. I loved the books and movies and the vibes of Fourth Wing brought back those good ole days. Ugh, so good! I also saw SO many references to ACOTAR or Feysand, which made me think Rebecca Yarros had read ACOTAR. Love that for her and loved seeing something inspired by such an awesome couple. Xaden and Violent gave off Feysand vibes, especially Xaden as Rhysand <3
Also, just the dragon part of the story gave me the best possible flashbacks to How To Train Your Dragon (HTTYD) and Eragon; I was picturing HTTYD during Violet’s flying scenes, ngl. I’m not the biggest fan of Eragon (the books or the movie), but I was just reminded of the similarities between Eragon and Fourth Wing because of both the books’ fantasy, mythical creatures, and dragon-training aspects. Yeah, I’d have to say I absolutely love it when my favorite parts of other books are combined all together, which is exactly what I got with Fourth Wing.
Like I said, loved those vibes that I got from my favorite other fantasy worlds, as well as just the general “girl-having-to-prove-herself” trope. Also, the grumpy, closed-off superior ranking guy who offers to train her, is one of my favorite all-time tropes, so I was swooning hard when that happened. Definitely love Violet and Xaden, so good. Plus, super great side-characters, writing style, and I felt sucked into the world right away—all good things in a book!
As for one thing I wish wasn’t in the book, it’d have to be that the visuals around the book weren’t as on-point as they could have been. Rebecca Yarros did a great job describing stuff, but I love to have a killer map in the book that I can keep referring to, and the one she indlcluded of Basgiath War College was unnecessary and unhelpful. I wish she had put a map of the entire continent and the borders of Navarre because that’s what I was struggling to picture. Also, love extra little details like an index of words or even exerpts like those at the beginning of each chapter but compiled and expanded on at the back. Yeah, those kinds fo little details make the world so much more real and draw me in super quick, so I miss that. But, all-in-all had such an awesome time with this book and can definitely see the hype; it was all the best parts of other contemporary fantasy put together!
Genre: fantasy, Y/A, fiction, romance
Age: 14+
Rating: 10/10