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Bonus Preview: FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros

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4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about their experience reading Fourth Wing. A word of caution: the book didn't work for them. If hearing honest, free-ranging discussions of the specifics of why is going to be unpleasant, this might be one for you to skip. If you are interested in the rest and are not already signed up for our Patreon, go here to subscribe and get the whole discussion. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Sign up for the Book Riot Podcast Newsletter and follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky. Get more industry news with our Today in Books daily newsletter. A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! Join us as we make our way through 24 tasks meant to expand our reading horizons. Sign up at bookriot.com/readharder. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Discussed in this Episode: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

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0:16.5

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0:21.6

Here we go.

0:23.7

Rebecca, let's start here with Fourth Wing.

0:28.0

How did the actual experience of reading it comport with your expectation of what it was going to be like?

0:34.2

Well, I had managed to basically avoid knowing what it was about other than there were dragons and sex.

0:43.3

It was, well, I don't know. So I didn't really have expectations, I guess. I think it was about what I, as far as I did have expectations, I think it was about what I expected. It reads a lot younger than I was expecting. That was one place that was really different. And I have seen a lot of folks online being pedantic about this is not young adult. This is a book

1:12.9

for adults. It just has younger characters. She's 20, right? Right. She's like 20. It's for new adults.

1:18.7

It's in that category. You know, like she's 20. I think this is for folks who have aged out of the

1:25.3

like official cat, like the official age group for young adult readers.

1:29.8

They're over 18.

1:31.0

And it has explicit sex.

1:32.5

But it felt to me like Harry Potter with boning in a lot of ways, which I think is kind of what

1:41.7

I expected.

1:42.4

I had read a lot of summaries of Akitar,

1:45.0

and I think I expected more of the Akitar tropes

1:49.8

that I had heard about to show up here as well,

1:52.4

but I understand those are pretty difficult.

1:54.2

Should we tell the people what it's about?

1:56.4

So the main character, we enter in Media Res, which actually was kind of interesting, where she's on her way to drag in writing school.

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