Fourth Wing - Empyrean, Bk 1 Author:Rebecca Yarros Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding generalâalso known as her tough-as-talons motherâhas ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. — But when you’re sma... more »ller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughterâlike Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.
She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise« less