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Fireborne (2019)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Start here if the dragon riders’ training and loyalties mattered as much to you as their dragons. Annie and Lee came from opposite sides of a revolution and grew up together afterward. Now they’re competing to lead the same dragonriding fleet. The contest has teeth because either of them could have a good reason to win.
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath (2023)
9.0/10on Open Library
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Anequs bonds with a hatchling and has to learn the colonizers’ rules of dragon handling at an academy that doubts she belongs. If you liked watching Violet work out how to survive rules designed around other people, you’ll recognize that pressure. The book gives the bond and the struggle over whose knowledge counts room to develop.
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A Deadly Education (2020)
8.1/10on Open Library
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You can get the sensation of surviving your education from the Scholomance alone. Monsters can get at El and her classmates, and other students can be just as hard to trust. Pick it for a heroine who has to decide when to admit she needs help, with a far more prickly running commentary than Violet’s.
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The Serpent & the Wings of Night (2022)
7.4/10on Open Library
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Try this for the version of Violet and Xaden’s tension where rivalry takes place in a formal contest. Oraya is human in a vampire court, and her survival in the Kejari depends on an alliance with Raihn, who is trying to win it himself. The tournament keeps giving each of them a practical reason to doubt the attraction.
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So Let Them Burn (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Faron has already helped free her island from an empire of dragon riders when her sister Elara forms a bond with an enemy dragon. Try this if you want a bond that creates a problem for the whole family. The sisters’ loyalty has the urgency a romance might have in another book.
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Ascendant (2020)
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Holt cooks for a dragon-riding order until he rescues an egg that the dragons intend to destroy. The hatchling is blind and the bond gives Holt a kind of power nobody expects. Choose it for a pair who have to discover their own way to train instead of stepping into an established rider’s place.
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Dragon Rider (2023)
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Jai escapes a coup with a dragon egg after years as a hostage to the empire that killed his father. If you hoped a dragon bond might matter beyond the riders’ own ranks, try this first volume for the chance it gives a former captive to contest who gets to wield power.
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Dragonflight (1968)
7.8/10on Open Library
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Lessa forms a telepathic bond with a golden dragon when Pern needs every rider it can get against the falling Thread. Read this for the old-school sweep of a rider and dragon becoming a fighting pair. The book puts leadership and survival at the center of their leap into the air.
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His Majesty's Dragon (2006)
7.8/10on Open Library
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A British naval officer and a newly hatched dragon have to learn aerial warfare together against Napoleon. Try it for an intelligent partner with his own ideas about loyalty. The deliberate, formal friendship between Laurence and Temeraire is the point, with the Napoleonic setting giving their flights tactical stakes.
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Dragon's Blood (1982)
9.0/10on Open Library
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Jakkin steals a hatchling and raises it out of sight, hoping he can win enough in the fighting pits to buy his freedom. The book is closest to Fourth Wing when one young person’s future depends on gaining a dragon’s trust. Expect pit fights and training in place of courtship.
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Joust (2003)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Vetch learns what a dragon needs while caring for one belonging to a mounted warrior. Then he starts raising a dragon in secret. Read it for the work that goes into a bond and for a rider whose first goal is freedom.
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Eragon (2000)
7.6/10on Open Library
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Eragon finds an egg, and the dragon it hatches, Saphira, changes the scale of the life he imagined for himself. Choose it if you miss a developing bond and want time with the pair as they learn what they can do. The book spends that time inside a classic quest.
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Dragonfall (2023)
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A desperate theft brings the dragon Everen into Arcady’s life, and they have reasons to distrust each other before the attraction has a chance. If you liked choosing between the bond and everyone else’s plans for it in Fourth Wing, try a story in which the dragon is one of the parties to the romance.
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Fear the Flames (2022)
7.0/10on Open Library
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Elowen wants her captured dragons back. To reach them, she makes a bargain with a commander who needs her help in the coming war. Start here if a dangerous alliance and a reason to break into a castle sound like more fun than another school year. The romance has room to compete with the heist.
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The Sky on Fire
Anahrod and her titan drake start out far from the dragon-ruled sky cities. A crew led by a dragon rider needs her to go back and steal from the regent’s hoard. Choose it for flying beasts, banter, and a definite stopping point. It’s a stand-alone heist.
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The Priory of the Orange Tree (2019)
8.7/10on Open Library
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Tané trains to ride a dragon while Ead guards a queen in a part of the world with very different ideas about dragons. Pick this if you want the chance to cross between those two views, plus a romance that has to grow quietly inside a court. Set aside time for a story with several points of view.
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The Last Namsara (2017)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Asha hunts dragons to win her way out of a marriage she dreads. The hunt also brings her back to the stories everyone has warned her about. Try it if you want a heroine whose skill with dragons is solid before she starts questioning who told her to use it that way.
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When the Moon Hatched (2024)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Raeve is an assassin and a prisoner when Kaan, a grieving dragon rider, finds her. The story builds around what both of them have lost. If you want romance with an established dragon culture, this gives you moons that were once dragons and two people with a past they have reason to be careful about.
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House of Dragons (2020)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Five royal houses are called to compete for a throne, and the candidates who turn up this time are the people nobody expected to send. Try it if you liked the mix of dragons, competitive ordeals, and figuring out who among the other candidates might be an ally. The viewpoints give you more than one answer.
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Of Blood And Fire (2021)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Calen Bryer is preparing for a test that some people die trying to pass when three strangers draw him into a much older conflict. Try it for the jump from proving yourself in front of the people you grew up with to having to act on a much bigger stage.
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Rebelwing (2020)
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Prudence forms a bond with a mechanical dragon, putting both of them in the middle of a conflict that’s much bigger than one unexpected machine. Choose it for a younger, more futuristic read that still gets mileage out of the question of who chose whom.
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