Is there an audiobook of Fourth Wing?

Yes. Fourth Wing has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton.

How long is the Fourth Wing audiobook?

The Fourth Wing audiobook runs 22 hr 2 min.

Is Fourth Wing on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. Fourth Wing was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 6, 2026.

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros book cover for the Book of the Day fantasy book review

Our score

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDMay 2023

PublisherEntangled Publishing, LLC

Genres

Fiction Fantasy Romantasy

Themes

Survival through cunning instead of strengthInstitutional cruelty dressed as traditionDesire entangled with distrustThe cost of a parent's ambitions

Fourth Wing

Name: Fourth Wing
Price: 14.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros

Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing throws brittle-boned Violet Sorrengail into a war college where dragons incinerate the riders they refuse to carry, and her general mother has removed every exit. The romantasy phenomenon that launched the Empyrean series turns out to run on genuine tension: survival math first, slow-burning enemies-to-lovers second.

The Review

Our take

Believe the noise on this one. Fourth Wing arrived buried under its own hype and still comes out ahead, because underneath the dragons and the smolder is a survival story built with real mechanical honesty. Violet Sorrengail trained her whole life to be a scribe, a keeper of books with a body that breaks easily and joints that dislocate under a heavy pack. Her mother the general reroutes her into the Riders Quadrant, where cadets die on the entrance exam, the curriculum, and each other, and where a dragon faced with a fragile candidate does not politely decline. It incinerates.

What I loved most is how physical the world's logic stays. Nothing at Basgiath War College is abstract: the parapet crossing is narrow and rain-slicked and people fall, alliances are counted in who guards your sleep, and every one of Violet's limitations forces a workaround you watch her engineer, poison prepped in advance, leverage instead of strength, saddles rigged so the sky itself stops being her enemy. The dragons are a terrific invention, ancient, contemptuous, funny, and genuinely dangerous, and the bond that eventually forms answers to rules the book sets before it needs them. Even the signet powers, the magic riders manifest, arrive with costs and politics attached, and the college's brutal attrition means the ensemble around Violet stays honestly at risk. Friends here are not decoration. They are people you brace for.

Why you should read

Romantasy readers who want the fantasy half load-bearing
Fans of deadly magic-school and war-college stories
Anyone drawn to a chronically ill heroine who out-thinks her body
Enemies-to-lovers readers who like a real payoff

What to expect

A brutal training-ground setting where cadets genuinely die
Slow-burn tension with an open-door payoff
Dragons with personality, contempt, and rules
A late reveal that reframes the series

The romance runs on the same fuel. Xaden Riorson commands the quadrant and has inherited every reason to want Violet dead, which the book treats as an actual obstacle rather than seasoning, and the long slide from wariness to want generates most of the story's heat, in both senses; when it pays off, Yarros does not fade to black. Around the couple, the war outside the college keeps pressing in, and the final chapters detonate a turn that reframes the whole syllabus, the last hundred pages moving so fast the book practically reads itself. Two sequels are already out. You will want them within the hour.

Reviewed by Rowan · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.6/ 5

Outstanding

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of Fourth Wing?: Yes. Fourth Wing has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Rebecca Soler and Teddy Hamilton.
Listen to Fourth Wing free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the Fourth Wing audiobook?: The Fourth Wing audiobook runs 22 hr 2 min.
Is Fourth Wing on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. Fourth Wing was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 6, 2026.
How much does Fourth Wing cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $14.99, Paperback $11.80, Hardcover $16.91. Prices as of August 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is Fourth Wing about?: Believe the noise on this one. Fourth Wing arrived buried under its own hype and still comes out ahead, because underneath the dragons and the smolder is a survival story built with real mechanical honesty. Violet Sorrengail trained her whole life to be a scribe, a keeper of books with a body that…
Is Fourth Wing worth reading?: We scored Fourth Wing 4.6 out of 5. Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing throws brittle-boned Violet Sorrengail into a war college where dragons incinerate the riders they refuse to carry, and her general mother has removed every exit. The romantasy phenomenon that launched the Empyrean series turns out to run on genuine…