Really bad writing quality, I can’t believe the ratings are so high on goodreads. I’m just expressing my opinion, so unless you also didn’t like it I’d not keep reading this post, because I hate when people talk shit about my favorite book lol… Anyways, the main character, Violet is the most annoying insufferable whiny girl I’ve everrrrr read about. The “chosen” trope was honestly very overused, Violet apparently has a bone Illness but Rebeca never mentioned it on the book. So her fans and her thinks that I have a crystal ball to guess?! I just thought she was very ANNOYING. She could at least actually train and improve instead of waiting for her 7ft boyfriend to save her or poisoning her enemies please. Also the thunder thing while they have love is very cringy sorry, I hated it. The world building is horrible and the plot is messy. I wanted to know more about the school system but the author just skipped through it. The best part of the book is for sure the dragons. The characters are very basic with no personality or depth…they felt like exactly what they are (fictional). I like books that makes me feel like I personally know the characters. That’s more of a rant than a review. And apparently the second book is even worst according to some of my friends… And the author is very problematic, honestly Sarah just Maas 2. But to call her Sarah j Maas is actually an insult to Sarah because I actually like almost all of her books…
I’m going in on this because you opened the floodgates, OP.
It’s mentioned at least a dozen times how frail Violet is and that she breaks bones easily, which is why she was heavily discouraged from becoming a rider. I mean if you’re trying to say the author never mentioned specific disease/condition she has, then yes you’re right, but naming a disease in a fantasy book that obviously takes place not in our current understanding of Earth would be weird?
Did you actually read the book? She spends much of the first book training.
You talk about hating insufferable, whiny characters but you like Sarah J Maas? Every single character in ACoTaR comes across as whiny.
When I said Sarah j Maas I actually meant the throne of glass series, I’m not a big fan of ACOTAR but it’s much better written (plot and characters) than Fourth wing. All the characters on fourth wing are very one dimensional, specially Xaden…that dude has no personality besides having trauma and being 7ft something.
I honestly not in a million years would have guessed without social media, that the descriptions the author did about Violet actually meant a disability. Is very common on fantasy books for the main character to be very short, petite and fragile…which I literally can’t handle this descriptions. Of course I don’t mind this characteristics but the author said at least a dozen times every chapter, if id know before hand that Violet has a disability I would read it with another eyes.
Plus, you can’t deny that the characters are so badly written, that girl has 0 personality… Where are the actual flaws!! There’s a book called the poppy war, and the main character is also described as being pretty weak and short (not with a disability), but that girl was full of personality plus flaws that made me love her throughout the series.
Honestly it just sounds like you lack reading comprehension at this point.
Casual observer here. No opinion on the book or author.
I do think that there is a significant distinction between a person being frail, and or having had broken bones a number of times, vs having a disease.
If the protagonist has a known disease which exists in whatever reality the story takes place in, and the character themselves is aware of what that disease is as well as the fact they have it, I would find it odd that the book doesn’t contain that information.
So my question would be: Is she weak, frail, and potentially accident prone? Or does she actually have a disease or condition which is a known entity in her reality?
The disease is EDS in real life, and it’s barely understood. I likely have it, and it doesn’t affect my heart thank goodness, but very few people understand it or take it seriously despite the fact that it causes everything she deals with and more issues like heart problems. When I was 21 I would pop my knee out just by standing up. I dislocated my shoulder by sleeping. I was told it was because I’m tall, it’s not, it’s likely EDS.
That said, it doesn’t really make sense to name it. They’re in a world of war without doctors. They have healers and some medicines, but it’s not like they have doctors sitting there figuring out how to deal with major diseases, let alone livable syndromes like Violet’s.
I don’t really have a stake in this, I read 4th wing, I enjoyed it, but I don’t think it’s amazing. I do think not naming a syndrome in another world makes sense though.
Editing to add EDS was only given a name in 1892, which makes it even more reasonable that it was just a set of symptoms previously, and therefore a set of symptoms in a book set in a world sort of similar to our past.