Fourth Wing

A dragon without a rider is a tragedy.
A rider without a dragon is dead.
ARTICLE ONE, SECTION ONE, THE HORSE CODE

"Is there anyone else who wants to change their minds?" Zayden shouts looking at the rest of the cadets with the same vicious look the blue dragon has behind him. "No; Dot. About half of you will be dead by next summer.”

Everyone in the formation is silent and only some muffled sobs can be heard to my left.

“A third of you will have died in the second year and as many in the third. No one here cares who your mom or dad is. Even King Tauri's second son died during the Selection. So tell me again: Do you feel invincible now that you've made it to the Knights Quarter? Do you feel indestructible? Do you feel like you're among the elite?'

Nobody's cheering now.

Another hot wave hits me, this time straight in the face, and I'm completely squished into the incineration that awaits me.
But it's not flames… it's just steam that blows back Rhiannon's braids as the dragons blow out in unison.
The pants of the freshman in front of me are turning black, the color spreading to his legs.
They want us to fear them. They succeeded. "Because to them you are neither indestructible nor anything special."
Zaden points to the blue dragon and leans forward a bit looking into our eyes as if he wants to tell us a secret. "To them, you're just prey."

Meet the barbaric and elite world of the military school for dragon riders in Rebecca Yarros' best-selling book.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorengale would normally enter the Writers' Quarter and live a quiet life in the company of her books.
Now, the commanding general – and her hard-hearted mother – has ordered Violet to follow the hundreds of candidates who yearn to become Navarre's elite… after becoming dragon riders first.

But because she is the most petite of all and her body is fragile, death seems only a breath away...
On the one hand, because dragons are not associated with "fragile" people. Instead, they are cremated.

On the other hand, because the other prospective horsemen want to kill Violet. As there are fewer dragons willing to join than cadets, most candidates see Violet's death as increasing their own chances.
But many want to kill her simply because she is her mother's daughter – like Zaden Ryerson, the most powerful and ruthless wing leader in the Knights Quarter.
Violet will need every ounce of her wits to face the next sunrise.

However, with each passing day the war outside grows fiercer, the kingdom's magic chambers weaken, and the dead continue to rise. And the worst part?
Violet begins to suspect that the leaders are hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers.
Everyone at the Bashgaiath military school has an agenda – because once you're in, there's only two ways to get out: either graduate or die.

Pages: 544
Height (cm) & Width (cm): 23 X 15