How long does it take to read Fourth Wing?
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros takes about 9 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Empyrean
Next: Iron Flame
About 9 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2023. 518 pages, about 142,450 words. Written for young adults.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- animal death
- war
Subjects: Fantasía, Fantasy, ficción, ficciones, Fiction, Romántica
