Welcome to our SUPER AWESOME book club!

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While I have named the club after myself, the reality is that a club is about the people who are in it. I have chosen all of you because I think you will make for an excellent book club. My goals for this club are that (1) all of you have a great time and (2) enjoy discussing our readings in our upcoming sessions. I look forward to making many memories and having terrific discussions about our love for the written word. We will meet up quarterly (January/April/August/November), dates pending.

Our first reading (selected for a fun start) is:

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Empyrian Series, Book 1)

Excerpt from the author's webpage:

"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.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

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.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die."



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