Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

88 reviews

flo_gay's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Gore, Medical content, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

gabby_tijerina's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

rhibeanreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

lexilusk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Schwab does a great job of pulling together religious concepts and science into the overall theme of this read. 
Eli, holding this God complex as if he isn’t flawed himself. 
Victor, demanding vengeance for the wrongdoing inflicted on him 10+ years later. 
things started to really pick up about 50% into part two, and the ending was a pleasant moment honestly.

For Victor to get his vengeance and of course Sydney bringing him back, and see Eli go down, because let’s be honest, he was not really a good guy.

I was a little leery about picking up the sequel Vengeful, but now i’m curious to know how the tale of these two will continue to unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: Religious bigotry

bashsbooks's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Vicious is such a dark joyride of a book. It's got everything - women who are the most powerful people around, homoerotic friends-to-enemies, a hulking sidekick who is more brains than brawn, disability rep, an incredible and satisfying solution to the central conflict. I love the jumping around in the narrative, and the way EOs manifest their powers is super thought-provoking. I don't want to say too much, because I think this book is better the less that's known about what happens, but it's a hell of a lot of fun. Can't wait to read Vengeful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror and Religious bigotry

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Medical content, Car accident, and Alcohol

gwyllion's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

outlast0002's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Addiction

sarah_hutchins's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

lyndle's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Pretty dark and bloody but very cool plot structure. The first half walks you through multiple timelines to explain where the characters are and how they got there; then we watch each character progress and make decisions from there. Very character driven and introspective, but good characters and cool story beats. Somehow missed that this was basically a dark superhero book when I picked it up. Lots of trigger warnings below but none of them felt super triggering or were intended to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Grief, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Alcohol

While lots of characters die, you don't necessarily need to worry about all of them staying dead. And several of these warnings are either quick, nonpermanent, or done with an analytical purpose instead of an emotionally or mentally unstable one.

karissahodge's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

GREAT book! Kept me on my toes the whole time, and the predictable ending was made interesting by all the pieces that needed to fit before I got there. My only critique is that the different POVs all seemed to have the same voice. As I listened to the audiobook, I sometimes had to rewind to remember who was narrating that part of the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis