Fourth Wing
A scribe's daughter with a body that dislocates on principle is forced into a war college where cadets die on the first bridge and the dragons choose who lives. The rival trying to kill her turns out to have been the one keeping her alive. On the House's scale it rates 3 for spice (hot), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Readers who want competition and banter carrying as much weight as the romance.
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How it rates
- Author
- Rebecca Yarros
- Series
- The Empyrean, book 1 of 5 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 3 out of 5, Hot3/5 · Hot
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Basgiath War College, in a kingdom under permanent siege
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 530
On the spice rating Three explicit scenes in five hundred pages, detailed but not frequent. The tension is doing most of the work. How the scale works.
Content warnings graphic violence, death, chronic illness, war.
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