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Fourth Wing

Empyrean, Book 1

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Fourth Wing

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
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A #1 New York Times bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books of 2023 • Hudson Book of the Year • Google Play Best Books of 2023 • Indigo Best Books of 2023 • Waterstones Book of the Year finalist • Goodreads Choice Award Winner • Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Books of 2023 • Paste Magazine's Best Books of 2023

"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy."—Booklist, starred review

"Fourth Wing will have your heart pounding from beginning to end ... A fantasy like you've never read before."―Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling 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 general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller 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 daughter—like 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.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

©2023 Rebecca Yarros (P)2023 Recorded Books

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This story was absolutely amazing! I loved the fantasy, the tension, the fmc, the dragons and their personalities and basically everything about the story. What I didn’t like, was the narration. It was incredibly frustrating and distracting to listen to someone with congestion narrate. The constant gulps of breath and nose sniffing made me almost give up about 1/3 of the way in. Luckily, I stuck it out and was rewarded with a great story. I can’t wait for book 2!

Amazing story, terrible narration!

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I’ve been seeing bad reviews of the narrator. She is the best female narrator I have come across and I listen to a book a week. Her voice is appropriate for the characters age and she has an appropriate amount of emotions in her narration. Most female narrators of this genre sound whiny and forced. Good book. Exciting. Good imagery

Great book, like the narrator

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75% of the book was great and then it felt like the author ran out of story and just kept repeating sex scenes without much progress from there

Way too much “i need you” at the end

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I have easily listened to hundreds of audiobooks and I usually can get past a narrator I don’t like. I literally bought the book on kindle to finish reading because this narrator drove me insane. The beginning of the book had 3 errors/omissions that had been dubbed in with the corrected lines and I constantly could hear the narrator swallowing, it drove me absolutely insane!
Otherwise book is great, a bit slow start and very similar to most fantasy smut. Didn’t love the first half but the it finally started to pick up. Eager to read book #2.

Loved the story, hated the narration

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AMAZING story. The narrator is so congested hearing her through my AirPods makes my stomach turn. She’s got a great voice just please re-record her after she gets rest and some serious antibiotics.

Re-record when the narrator isn’t sick please

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