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Vicious - Das Böse in uns by V.E. Schwab

43 reviews

katconig's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

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

earth_to_dani's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

thisisuru'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Violence, Blood, and Gaslighting

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Ok amazing! Schwab does it again! This story of power dynamics and friendship is a powerhouse and i'm glad theres a second book. Victor and Eli are so similar in ways and yet fundamentally different morally. I usually hate multiple pov and third person writing but Schwab does it so well you dont even notice it. I think all the individual storylines were crafted so beautifully and connected so well. I think this just suffers from what every multiple pov book does: a lack of connection to the characters. You feel for them yes, but when the end approached I didn't really care what happened to them, or I knew it would all be ok (either or). Im so excited to read the second installment and I hope its just as good if not better than the first! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

themdash's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

jeyjeyyy's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Fun fun fun! Got kind of bored in the beginning of the second half, but I think it’s more on me and my disastrous attention span than the book’s fault. Vicious is action upon action mixed with dark characters and complicated relationships + a very nice found family that I don’t think enough people talk about. Liked it a lot. 
(I did think the ending was a bit rushed though, would’ve liked a longer scene between Eli and Victor since well… the entire book kind of builds up to it) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

haveyouseencass's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

THIS WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!! I loved the mystery of it, the thrill of it, and I LOVED the characters. Yes, even the bad ones. They were all so interesting and well-rounded; I couldn’t wait to see what they did next. I also really loved the way this was written. I was glued the entire time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol

lilylovestoread's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Gaslighting

on_your_raedar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

This was so good! Once I got into it, it was really hard to put down (the library due date helped some too 😂😂). 

Fastest summary: this book is about Eli, a college student, that does his thesis on extraordinary (EOs) people and his roommate Victor, the POV you spend majority of the book in, work together to test Eli’s theories into practice to see if they can make EOs. Victor accidentally kills someone with his gift and Eli turns him in and goes on a self righteous kick using religion as his motivator. You spend the whole book waiting for the V and E show down. 

I’m not sure if the intent was to make Victor a likeable character but I really liked him. Mitch was easily my favorite character, I really hope the6 make this into a movie or tv show and get his character right because I’d love to see him. Sydney was a solid character, she’s really young so I’m excited to see her growth if she’s in book 2, especially with

her not knowing that Victor killed her sister, not Eli. I can already feel the tension there, but I hope it works out.

 

Needless to say, I have book 2 ready to start and also another book by the author. I could easily see V.E. creeping into my top 5 authors and I’m ready.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, Torture, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Grief, and Gaslighting