Fourth Wing

Let me start with what I loved, the dragons, the way they choose their riders, and the relationships between the riders and the dragons, I didn't think I was a dragon girl when I started this story but this book changed me and now I need more dragons in my life.

Now I will say the relationships were interesting,  I have to say the moment Violet started questioning why a certain someone didn't kill her when he had the chance set something rattling in my brain, while the relationship with her "best friend" set off tingles of warning.

On the subject of Violet, as someone living with a connective tissue disorder, it was nice to see ED represented in a main character but I'm not quite sure how it made me feel personally, I'll have to process that a  bit. It's different for someone living with something similar to vEDS to read about ED than for people that don't know much about it.  While I loved seeing her out living her best life I was terrified the whole time that she would tear or break something.

Now overall this is a good book, a very good book, the only thing that kept this from being a 5-star for me was how we're just dropped into the story, it almost felt like there was a book before this that I missed, it just seemed assumed that everyone would understand this world, the war, the relationships really all of it and I needed a little more to understand where we find ourselves on page one.

All of that being said I like this book and can't wait for book two, I might have already pre-ordered it but that's a story for another day.

~~I've had a few hours to think about this since I wrote my initial review and I think Violet having ED really is bothersome to me, if nothing more than for the fact of why would her mother want her to be a rider? Why even with all we know (and don't know) would she want her daughter in that situation, I realize she needs to live her life and keep moving but it just doesn't make sense to me.