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marsiguess's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Suicide attempt
crownoflaurel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Gun violence and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, and Medical trauma
Minor: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident
rosenau's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Blood, Car accident, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
Minor: Confinement, Drug use, and Religious bigotry
saurahsaurus's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Sexual content, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Classism
siennakt30's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
allthewords's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Car accident, and Murder
faithkalia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Overall I’d rate this book a 5/5 stars and it is for sure one of my favourites of Schwab’s work.
Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Torture
Minor: Car accident
li_reading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Toxic friendship
Minor: Confinement, Medical content, Car accident, and Abandonment
spearly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Victor was out. Victor was free.
And Victor was coming for Eli—just as he’d promised he would.
This might surprise you, but Vicious is my first V.E. Schwab book. I never hopped on the Addie LaRue train, and honestly, I'm glad, because this was an excellent introduction into the lyrical writing, world building, and complexities of Victoria Schwab.
10 years ago, college roommates Eli and Victor decide to put a theory to the test - under the right conditions, with enough pain and willpower to live, you can make an ExtraOrdinary person, or EO; regular people who survive a near-death experience and develop incredible powers. But the night Victor comes back from the brink of death is the night everything changed.
I won't lie and say that I love love loved this as much as some of my mutuals. Am I crushing on a verifiable sociopath with powers and a hunger for revenge? No.
Victor Vale and Eli Ever are two very complicated, nuanced, and morally ambiguous characters. Their sense of right and wrong is almost completely manufactured, especially when the both come back after their NDE with that vital part of themselves missing: Eli calls it a soul. I call it humanity. But even before their accidents, there was something dark beneath the surface.
I'm torn, because I love complex characters but when it comes to moral ambiguity.... it's tough. I HATE hypocrites, and I hate hypocritical characters. But like... I know that's the POINT.
There are no good men in this game.
And it's true. Victor Vale is not a good man. Eli Ever is not a good man. They both skew their realities to give themselves some moral superiority where there is none. Eli uses God and faith to justify his work, and Victor uses, tortures, and forces anyone who serves him a purpose. But again... I KNOW THAT'S THE POINT.
That aside though, I appreciated Victor's struggle to fabricate his old, human feelings, his need to do right, even when it didn't come naturally to him. How, in his own way, he did still have people he cared about. I could even see how Eli came to be as Eli was: a man who thought he was touched by God. A man who thought it was his divine purpose to eradicate the world of other EOs. His chapters helped with that. I didn't like them, but they helped.
The world building though was *chef's kiss*. I loved how uncanny if felt. It teeters on the edge of possibility, which I suppose is the marking of a good sci-fi. Atmospheric. A fantasy noir. I could picture the rain and the sizzle of power and the darkness that loomed over a world so similar to our. Juts unknown.
I need a breather I think before I pick up Vengeful, but i will come back to it. I loved Sydney. I loved Mitch. I loved Dol. Justice for Angie.
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Murder
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Sexual content, and Car accident
redthistle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Murder