Your Fourth Wing theme night has landed.
Tonight, in person, at the Enterprise Center.
Right now, in your pocket, in your St. Louis Blues app.
Dragon riders meet hockey.
We work with the St. Louis Blues on other reading projects, and it's no surprise to me that they prioritized a theme night based on a book everyone's talking about.
Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros's runaway bestseller.
Also, did I mention dragon riders?
Open the Blues app right now, and see for yourself. Section headers are crowned with dragon-rider silhouetted icons. If you're signed in, your name is emblazoned at the top of the home page, greeting you with "It's Fourth Wing Night, Ana!"
More dragon riders show up for all of the features: Team, Roster, Stats, Headlines, Gameday. And in the series' black-and-gold colors, too. Scroll all the way down that home page, and drop into a special footer image, a silhouette of a castle, and a silhouetted dragon over the parapets, like something leaping right off a book jacket.
Even the Coming to the Game sticky hovering button at the bottom of the page is having its dragon moment. Look closely, and that button is shaped like the outline of the Enterprise Center (home of the Blues) with a dragon flying over the arena's "parapets." If you're coming to the game, you know what to expect.
Dragon riders on the home screen. Yes, dragon riders.
Hockey on the ice. Blues hockey.
Me? Wishing I'd had this kind of theme night for my favorite books, growing up.
💙💛 Magali Valiente, Julia Lesnicki, Keira Emerson, I love your love of reading, and for looking at a book release and thinking, "our app should totally wear that." Keep taking these swings. I'm here for every one of them.
Image credit: Ana Baskinger.