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A review by chantaal
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
DNFing because a lot of this world building and writing is just absolutely bonkers and terribly stupid. violet just happens to recite historical/geopolitical facts out loud to calm her anxiety and that's how we learn about the world? lmfao please
and i just cannot get past the whole premise of the war college and threshing ending in TONS AND TONS of young military cadets being MURDERED ALL THE TIME when there's an endless war and they're desperate for people to join! so desperate they CONSCRIPTED people!!! JUST TO HAVE THEM DIE BEFORE THEY EVEN STEP ONTO THE WAR COLLEGE GROUNDS? 60+ DIED IN THE FIRST MORNING??? make it make sense!!
also xaden is racially ambiguous and screamingly hot and muscled and of course violet is small so she barely comes up to his shoulders because big tall dark handsome man must be super big and tall and hot right??
i thought i'd give this a chance because the high star rating is absolutely fucking bonkers (4.78???), but nope. i really gotta trust my instincts more. at least the physical book is really pretty.
and i just cannot get past the whole premise of the war college and threshing ending in TONS AND TONS of young military cadets being MURDERED ALL THE TIME when there's an endless war and they're desperate for people to join! so desperate they CONSCRIPTED people!!! JUST TO HAVE THEM DIE BEFORE THEY EVEN STEP ONTO THE WAR COLLEGE GROUNDS? 60+ DIED IN THE FIRST MORNING??? make it make sense!!
also xaden is racially ambiguous and screamingly hot and muscled and of course violet is small so she barely comes up to his shoulders because big tall dark handsome man must be super big and tall and hot right??
i thought i'd give this a chance because the high star rating is absolutely fucking bonkers (4.78???), but nope. i really gotta trust my instincts more. at least the physical book is really pretty.