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.…
"If you haven’t picked up this series, let me be your sign from the universe telling you “DO IT NOW.” The third installment of the Empyrean series (starting with Fourth Wing) picks up right where the previous book left off, and we immediately embark on new adventures that test the limits of what our group of cadets knows to be truth, of the strengths of their friendships and of their unit, of their magical and personal bonds with their dragons, and of the fragility of the kingdom they thought they knew in the face of an unknowable enemy. The stakes are raised even higher, with the search for new information to save the world they love, as well as those they have previously considered enemies. This book made me laugh, swoon, cry, and cry again – and again – in the three days it took me to inhale it. I now sit and stare at the calendar, wondering when the next book will be released."
