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#048: This week on A Novel Bunch, we are spiraling straight into the back half of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros—where lightning doesn’t just strike once, secrets fracture loyalties, and Violet Sorrengail realizes the war she’s been fighting… isn’t the real one.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
Jack is dead. Fourth Wing is celebrating. Violet is not.
She thanks little Andarna—“worth it,” our tiny golden queen says—and then promptly spirals over what it means to kill. Violet doesn’t fear Jack’s death. She fears what it’s turning her into. She always thought she’d be a mender like Brennan. Instead? She’s becoming the weapon.
And according to Xaden and Tairn… she is the weapon.
What follows? Oh, just Violet telling Xaden to stop being honorable and ruin her life. Lightning answers the call. Curtains catch fire. Windows shatter. Shadows splinter wood. Their first night together quite literally shakes Basgiath as her pleasure triggers a storm over the Riders Quadrant.
Romance? Explosive.
Power control? Questionable.
Emotional restraint? Gone.
In the aftermath, Xaden reveals the truth behind the 107 scars across his back—one for each child of the rebellion he protected. If any of them betray Navarre, he dies. The weight he carries is brutal.
On the Parapet, Violet finally admits it first: she’s in love with him. He takes her to his room. Lightning strikes again—hard enough to blow out his window. And just as they’re mid-round-five chaos?
War Games begin.
But it’s not a drill.
At Athebyne, the mask drops. Xaden and the marked ones have been secretly supplying weapons to gryphon fliers to fight something Violet thought was folklore—Venin. Creatures who drain magic from the earth. Creators of Wyvern. The monsters Navarre insists aren’t real.
Her father’s cryptic note clicks into place: it only takes one desperate generation to erase the truth.
And Dain? He stole her memories. Told his father. Sent them into a trap.
The choice becomes impossible: obey command… or save 300 innocent civilians in Resson from four Venin.
They stay.
Dragons. Gryphons. Wyvern. Blue fire. Death rings. Chaos.
Liam dies. Deigh falls. Tairn is struck from the sky. Violet watches everything burn—and finally understands: kill the Venin, and the Wyvern fall with them.
With Andarna stopping time and Xaden’s shadows at her back, Violet unleashes everything. She kills the leader. Xaden destroys the last.
And then she falls. Poisoned. Dying. Too far from Basgiath.
Xaden risks everything and takes her somewhere forbidden.When Violet wakes, they’re not at Basgiath. They’re in Aretia. Rebuilt.
And standing in the doorway?
“Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
Brennan.
The secrets were never small. The war was never simple. And Violet Sorrengail is officially on the wrong side of the kingdom—and the right side of history.
Let’s get into it, Bunchies!
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By A Novel Bunch#048: This week on A Novel Bunch, we are spiraling straight into the back half of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros—where lightning doesn’t just strike once, secrets fracture loyalties, and Violet Sorrengail realizes the war she’s been fighting… isn’t the real one.
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
Jack is dead. Fourth Wing is celebrating. Violet is not.
She thanks little Andarna—“worth it,” our tiny golden queen says—and then promptly spirals over what it means to kill. Violet doesn’t fear Jack’s death. She fears what it’s turning her into. She always thought she’d be a mender like Brennan. Instead? She’s becoming the weapon.
And according to Xaden and Tairn… she is the weapon.
What follows? Oh, just Violet telling Xaden to stop being honorable and ruin her life. Lightning answers the call. Curtains catch fire. Windows shatter. Shadows splinter wood. Their first night together quite literally shakes Basgiath as her pleasure triggers a storm over the Riders Quadrant.
Romance? Explosive.
Power control? Questionable.
Emotional restraint? Gone.
In the aftermath, Xaden reveals the truth behind the 107 scars across his back—one for each child of the rebellion he protected. If any of them betray Navarre, he dies. The weight he carries is brutal.
On the Parapet, Violet finally admits it first: she’s in love with him. He takes her to his room. Lightning strikes again—hard enough to blow out his window. And just as they’re mid-round-five chaos?
War Games begin.
But it’s not a drill.
At Athebyne, the mask drops. Xaden and the marked ones have been secretly supplying weapons to gryphon fliers to fight something Violet thought was folklore—Venin. Creatures who drain magic from the earth. Creators of Wyvern. The monsters Navarre insists aren’t real.
Her father’s cryptic note clicks into place: it only takes one desperate generation to erase the truth.
And Dain? He stole her memories. Told his father. Sent them into a trap.
The choice becomes impossible: obey command… or save 300 innocent civilians in Resson from four Venin.
They stay.
Dragons. Gryphons. Wyvern. Blue fire. Death rings. Chaos.
Liam dies. Deigh falls. Tairn is struck from the sky. Violet watches everything burn—and finally understands: kill the Venin, and the Wyvern fall with them.
With Andarna stopping time and Xaden’s shadows at her back, Violet unleashes everything. She kills the leader. Xaden destroys the last.
And then she falls. Poisoned. Dying. Too far from Basgiath.
Xaden risks everything and takes her somewhere forbidden.When Violet wakes, they’re not at Basgiath. They’re in Aretia. Rebuilt.
And standing in the doorway?
“Welcome to the revolution, Violet.”
Brennan.
The secrets were never small. The war was never simple. And Violet Sorrengail is officially on the wrong side of the kingdom—and the right side of history.
Let’s get into it, Bunchies!