One of the great fantasy phenomena of the present bears the name
Fourth Wing. The socketization includes magical powers and bitter fights, a school and lots of dragon riders: inside and is to be filmed as a series by Amazon Prime in the future. We explain to you what is behind the global hit.
Fourth Wing: A fantasy book that became a phenomenon
In May 2023, a fantasy story called Fourth Wing was released and hit waves within a very short time. Last but not least, the novel owed the great popularity to the spread on the Tiklok social media platform, where the reading Booktok community for viral sensation made that soon spilled over to other literary circles.
US author Rebecca Yarros Had made a name for itself through love novels before, but with her first fantasy book, a global hit ended up Over 2 million copies sold in the first six months (according to NYT). In the meantime, three novels of the so-called “Empyrean” saga have been published, have been translated into over 40 languages and continuously stay on the renowned New York Times bestseller list.
These books are part of the Empyrean book series:
According to author Rebecca Yarros, the Fourth Wing series is created A total of 5 novels. In German the books carry the additional title Flt -kissed.
What is Fourth Wing about?
Under the motto ‘School leaving or dying?‘(Graduate or Die) introduces Fourth Wing into his fantasy story: The 20-year-old general daughter Violet Sorrengail actually wanted to devote her life to study books, but is surprisingly sent to Basgiath by her mother. The brutal selection process of the war school to Dragon rider: to become inonly survive the strongest and unscrupulous, while over half of the prospective cadets are around.
At this point you will find an external content of Instagramthat adds the article. You can have it displayed with one click and hide it again.
Violet finds friends, but also enemies in the halls of the building. Her oldest friend Dain Aetos takes care of her, especially after the shadow commanding squadron Xaden Riorson no longer takes her eyes off her. Can Violet win her own kite and gain magical powers before your competition turns off? Or does that Kingdom of Navarre much bigger problemsif a war threatens Poromiel with the neighboring country?
Hunger Games-Hogwarts meets Game of Thrones: Why is Fourth Wing so popular?
Fourth Wing can be included magical, brutal and sexy rewrite. Even if the story is on her own feet, it has many fantasy elements that already led other books to success: a magical school as in Harry Potterthe struggle for survival of young people as in The Hunger Games and intrigue and sex as with game of Thrones.
The popularity also carries the strong heroine despite physical restrictions With: Violet suffers from a chronic disease of over -longing joints, which often causes pain. Yarros confirmed Today that this is the rare illness called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), from which the writer also suffers.
At this point you will find an external content of Twitterthat adds the article. You can have it displayed with one click and hide it again.
Through the additional Romantic focus In fantasy history, Fourth Wing is carried as “Romantasy” not least by a large female readership. The book is often also attributed to the “Dark Academia” genre division. With its explicit erotic scenes, the series beyond Young Adult is a more adult fantasy entertainment.
Amazon films Fourth Wing as a fantasy series
Even in October of the year of publication 2023, in which Fourth Wing became a literary fantasy phenomenon, Amazon secured the right On a film adaptation of the novel hit. In addition to Michael B. Jordan’s production company Outlier Society, Liz Pelletier, Elizabeth Raposo and author Rebecca Yarros also came on board as executing producers. After that, however, it became quiet for several months.
It was not until July 2024 that the series had reached its next milestone: Fourth Wing won Moira Walley-Beckett as a show runnerwho won three Emmys for her work on Breaking Bad, among other things and created the Netflix series Anne with.
When does Fourth Wing start at Amazon Prime?
It is still a long way to the finished series, because now the screenplays for several episodes have to be written. The filming and the long, effective post-production (with dragons to be animated in the double-digit range) will follow in the search for the perfect line-up. So we count on that Series start not before 2026/27.
*The links to Amazon offer are so-called affiliate links. When buying on these links, we receive a commission.