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A review by a_chickletz
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
5.0
AHHHHHHH. Victor Vale is one of my favorite literary anti-heroes. Or villains? Or what is he?
I was so fortunate a couple years ago to actually meet Victoria and tell her how much I enjoyed Vicious. I asked her if she planned on writing a sequel and when she said 'yes' my heart flew out the window. She also signed my Vicious paperback too.
The world building was a slight issue I had in the first book, but in this one I feel the more characters made the world building tighter and acceptable. While I still find EO's and their history a bit perplexing (like, why haven't people heard of them prior to when Victor and co started playing 'God'), and they did establish there were men and women older than them that had powers, the 'powers' themselves got more depth and the limits of the powers were more explained and how people 'got' their powers they ended up with.
Victoria created quite an amazing world where one has to compete with Marvel and co and I love how she was the first one to try this twist out.
I loved Marcella and I loved June, I loved director Snell and Eli... he's still an alternate take on Superman in my eyes. But Victor... Victor will always remain my favorite because he's so chilling, so distant but as they keep mention in the book 'he's always aware'.
I really hope we get another book because I still want to know June's backstory and if Eli and Victor ever meet again.
I was so fortunate a couple years ago to actually meet Victoria and tell her how much I enjoyed Vicious. I asked her if she planned on writing a sequel and when she said 'yes' my heart flew out the window. She also signed my Vicious paperback too.
The world building was a slight issue I had in the first book, but in this one I feel the more characters made the world building tighter and acceptable. While I still find EO's and their history a bit perplexing (like, why haven't people heard of them prior to when Victor and co started playing 'God'), and they did establish there were men and women older than them that had powers, the 'powers' themselves got more depth and the limits of the powers were more explained and how people 'got' their powers they ended up with.
Victoria created quite an amazing world where one has to compete with Marvel and co and I love how she was the first one to try this twist out.
I loved Marcella and I loved June, I loved director Snell and Eli... he's still an alternate take on Superman in my eyes. But Victor... Victor will always remain my favorite because he's so chilling, so distant but as they keep mention in the book 'he's always aware'.
I really hope we get another book because I still want to know June's backstory and if Eli and Victor ever meet again.