#45 in Romance
Fourth Wing
- 518
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 104 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Editor’s note Published by Red Tower Books in May 2023, it became the book most associated with the romantasy boom. It is set at a war college for dragon riders where cadets can die in training, and it contains explicit scenes. Rebecca Yarros has planned The Empyrean as five books; the sequels Iron Flame (November 2023) and Onyx Storm (January 2025) followed quickly.
About the book
Fourth Wing is a new adult fantasy romance novel written by the American author Rebecca Yarros. It is the first book in the Empyrean series, following the journey of Violet Sorrengail, who is forced by her mother, General Sorrengail, to join the Basgiath War College and become a dragon rider in the kingdom of Navarre. Even though she has been trained her entire life to enter the Scribe Quadrant, Violet must endure deadly quests and competitions that push her to her limits while trying to avoid being killed by one of the most powerful riders in the quadrant, Xaden Riorson.
Reading order · The Empyrean
Full order & progress →- Fourth WingThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - Iron Flame
8.08.0 / 10 - Onyx Storm
7.97.9 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 3,717 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 96% of the weight and the score stays at 8.1 — the Romance average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 104 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 3.6K | 97% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Surprisingly poorly written for a book that's been hyped across social media. It's an easy read, but I wonder if I finished it skimming because I couldn't get through the dialogue, internal monologue, and vague descriptions of the world.”
“After reading a few other magic school books this year (The Will of the Many, The Scholomance), I wasn’t sure this one would live up to the hype of being the #1 trending book on Hardcover. Turns out it did. Forth Wing takes place in…”
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It has 518 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Romance.
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