So I finished, fourth wing last night and I’m totally disappointed, it’s the worst book I’ve read this year and one of the worst I’ve read in recent times, I read so many positive reviews about it that I expected a totally incredible story, nothing in the book works, the writing almost amateur( Wattapp says Hello!) character without personality, repetitive plot( I got sick of reading Violeta saying so much: I’m smaller and Brittle than everyone else) the feeling I had was that Rebecca Yarros intended to write a YA, but then because she wanted to write adult scenes (laughable by the way) changed the age of the characters to over twenty, without changing anything in the plot, all their attitudes and everything they do is as if they were 15 year old teenagers, nothing is original, the academy part sounds like a bad copy of Sabaa Tahir’s The Ember in the Ashes (it’s actually a great example of a well-written fantasy series), the dragons are a duller version of How to Train Your Dragon, the romance part is so childish and shameful, and the plot twist at the end was obvious from the beginning I know that most people loved the book and I respect that, but I would like to know if anyone else has a similar opinion.
I disagree 20 year olds can definitely act like that. How old are you? Because if you’re older than the age range of characters you’re probably disassociated from how stupid and devolving relationships can be in your 20’s.
With that said this suffered a lack of editing for sure. I like the story and plot, but I’ve also read enough fan fiction to know this is not close to wattpad style writing. The colloquial used is very Gen Z and perhaps that’s the fault of RY hearing a lot of the vernacular while writing.
In terms of the overall plot it’s a borrowed rehashing of stories we’ve heard before which isn’t unusual in the fantasy realm.
This is also her first foray into fantasy romance so you have to consider that and the audience. Overall you may have hated it, but in turn I also hated things like 50 Shades of Grey the overall objective of publishers isn’t always to deliver literary masterpieces, but to get something that will appeal to a generally large audience.
I don’t think it’s a 5 star book, but also not a 1 star book and I’ve generally enjoyed hearing people theorize over it.