#read this book!!

[pipperoni32-blog]

Fourth Wing

By Rebecca Yarros / 5 stars

Man. I don't know where to start with this one. There's so much I want to say. I absolutely love the dragons, and the relationship the riders share with them. The way that they can talk to each other. The world they are in is often cruel, but I felt like it wasn't dwelt on overly so. On top of the world being so realized and fleshed out, you can picture everything. The writing is so good, and the pacing is spot on.

Then there's the personal aspect. From the very beginning, I sent excited texts out to my friends who were also reading - "Violet has janky joints like me!" Even before I finished the book and had it confirmed that Rebecca Yarros also has EDS, I'd connected to Violet on a deeper level. Is Violet a character study on EDS? Does she live my reality and show the severity of my symptoms? No. But she lives in an unstable body. She lives in pain. For once, I got to look at a character through one of their biggest flaws, their biggest liabilities and say "she's like me! And she's awesome!"

Plus, can I just say that the way Tairn (and Andarna) accept her weaknesses and help her realize her strengths? That they know her limitations, and work with them so she can be the best she can be. Even if that support comes in Tairn's grumpy way. Not her dragons alone, Xaden also does, but he's a whole 'nother thing. If I hadn't thought it before, it's confirmed. Guys, I want a dragon!

And then, oh yeah. There's Xaden. He's a category all to himself. My words cannot do Xaden Riorson justice.

I'm still in the book coma that came from finishing this book. Maybe some day I'd be able to do a review that encapsulates the gratitude, the representation, and just the general enjoyment I felt reading this book. I didn't want it to end. I'm so ready for the second one. I'm ready to start listening to the audiobook so I can rest and still get to be in this world.

[doctorslippery]

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[rincewind87]

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[baalzebufo]

so the book of bill is pretty good

[deadlypoetacademia]

[kate-bot]

billford comic i made while i was hungry >:3

[roseworth]

i think theres this idea in the general public that the "best" fanfic gets turned into real books like 50 shades of grey. but the truth is that the best fanfic can never be published as an actual book because its intricately woven into the canon material so its inseparable even if you change the names

[writtenroses1813]

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.