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A review by jumiofdiamonds
ExtraOrdinary by V.E. Schwab
adventurous
fast-paced
3.5
I enjoyed it over all and would love to see more short stories, even outside of our main crew. The art style was ok, I don't feel it captured Victor and Eli properly however.
A good chunk is a retelling of Vicious (Book 1) and it was done in a very slap-chop kind of way. If I was a new reader that happened to pick this up without reading the books I guess it'd be ok, but I definitely would have preferred either it not to have been included (giving us more time with Charlotte and this new crew of characters) or to have more dedicated time to flesh out the main story. More fleshing out all around honestly. I would have liked to see more of Charlotte's powers, especially with other EOs, learning more about the women they broke out of EON, etc.
The two-year cut (behind the scenes Vengeful is taking place I assume) while it ended on a cliff hanger that makes me thirsty for Book 3, it also is a bit of a cop-out. What happened is those two years?! I want to knoooow.
A good chunk is a retelling of Vicious (Book 1) and it was done in a very slap-chop kind of way. If I was a new reader that happened to pick this up without reading the books I guess it'd be ok, but I definitely would have preferred either it not to have been included (giving us more time with Charlotte and this new crew of characters) or to have more dedicated time to flesh out the main story. More fleshing out all around honestly. I would have liked to see more of Charlotte's powers, especially with other EOs, learning more about the women they broke out of EON, etc.
The two-year cut (behind the scenes Vengeful is taking place I assume) while it ended on a cliff hanger that makes me thirsty for Book 3, it also is a bit of a cop-out. What happened is those two years?! I want to knoooow.