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Wicked

Gregory Maguire

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, 1)

Rebecca Yarros • 2023

<p><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller • TV series in development at MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books of 2023 • Hudson Book of the Year • Google Play Best Books of 2023 • Indigo Best Books of 2023 • Waterstones Book of the Year finalist • Goodreads Choice Award Winner • Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Books of 2023 • Paste Magazine's Best Books of 2023</b><br><br><i>"Suspenseful, sexy, and with incredibly entertaining storytelling, the first in Yarros' Empyrean series will delight fans of romantic, adventure-filled fantasy."</i> —<i><b>Booklist</b></i><b>, starred review</b><br><br><i>"</i>Fourth Wing<i> will have your heart pounding from beginning to end... A fantasy like you've never read before."</i> <b>―#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout</b><br><br><br><b>Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Rebecca Yarros</b><br><br>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: <i>dragon riders</i>.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.<br><br>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.<br><br>Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: <i>graduate or die</i>.<br><br>The Empyrean series is best enjoyed in order.<br>Reading Order:<br>Book #1 Fourth Wing<br>Book #2 Iron Flame<br>Book #3 Onyx Storm</p>

Serpent and dove

Shelby Mahurin • 2020

Una strega e un cacciatore di streghe legati nel sacro vincolo del matrimonio. Un amore che gioca col fuoco. Louise le Blanc è fuggita dalla sua congrega e si è rifugiata a Cesarine, rinunciando a ogni forma di magia e vivendo di furti ed espedienti. Perché in quella tetra città le streghe come lei fanno paura. Vengono braccate. E mandate al rogo. Reid Diggory è un cacciatore, ha giurato fedeltà alla Chiesa e da sempre vive secondo un unico, ferreo principio: uccidere le streghe. La sua strada non avrebbe mai dovuto incrociare quella di Lou, eppure un perverso scherzo del destino li costringe a un'unione impossibile: il santo matrimonio. Ma anche se quella tra le streghe e la Chiesa è una guerra antica come il mondo, un nemico crudele ha in serbo per Lou un destino peggiore del rogo. E lei, che non può cambiare la propria natura e nemmeno ignorare i sentimenti che stanno sbocciando nel suo cuore, si trova di fronte a una scelta terribile. Siamo legati a doppio filo dall'amore, dall'onore, o dal fuoco... E l'amore si prende gioco di tutti noi.