Book of the Day

From the review

Ridoc Gamlyn walks into Threshing Day wanting what every cadet at Basgiath War College wants: a dragon, and a pulse to enjoy it with. His strategy for surviving a trial with exactly one rule is to be funny about it. The danger stays exactly as big as it was, but Ridoc becomes easier to love while he's standing in it. Rebecca Yarros has built the whole book on that trick. Threshing Day is a collection of short stories set inside the Empyrean world, one for each of thirteen cadets, and the cast list reads like a roll call of fan favorites. Xaden, Rhiannon, Dain, Liam, Sawyer, Garrick, Imogen, Bodhi, Mira, Brennan, Aaric, Sloane: everybody gets a turn at the microphone on the same brutal day. This is dragon-rider fantasy with the romantasy dial turned toward character rather than courtship, which means it's a book about who these people were before the series made them famous. Heads up on the spoiler situation, too. The book works as an entry point in theory, but it leans on what happens through Onyx Storm, and you'll enjoy it more with that history in your pocket.