Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

43 reviews

lakebreeze's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Murder, Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Torture, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcohol and Cursing

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

In an Instagram post last month,
V.E Schwab publicized an editors comment, which read “you’re readers will follow you anywhere.” Out of all the authors I have read over the years, I cannot think of one more fitting of this than Schwab, and Vicious is just the latest example.
Vicious follows two best friends, Victor and Eli, and the dark path that awaits them as a science thesis goes horribly wrong. The experiment in question: what is the essence behind an ExtraOrdinary person….and is it possible to create one?
I love the philosophical questions intertwined with the dark academia setting and more gruesome plot progressions, since it rounds into a more complex story. Even though Victor is a morally gray character, I still found myself rooting for him, in spite of his numerous faults. I think this goes to show the significance of character development in Schwab’s work (even the side characters), something I am exciting to read more of in the future. I have a feeling that the sequel (vengeful) will be a five star read for me, since there is less “magic system” development:)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Gore, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Abandonment, and Medical content

Minor: War

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

dark

5.0

Okay, wow. I didn't know anything about this except Victor Vale is not a bleeping sidekick and he's morally grey. Didn't expect LITERALLY

killing yourselves to get powers

!!
This was gooood. Violent, but good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Death, Suicide, Blood, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Child death, Drug use, and Medical content

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Animal death, Blood, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Torture, and Toxic friendship

pasavedra's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Violence, Hate crime, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Blood, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Self harm, Confinement, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Sexual assault, and Animal cruelty

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Took a quarter off bc of the future dumb angsty conflict that

Victor killed Serena

with Sydney blah blah blah and the pacing which was too off for me at times but other than that this was legitimately fun and absorbing to read. I had a nice time reading really felt like watching a thriller/superhero movie that distacts from the troubles of every day life. It's amusing but grounded too. I enjoyed it a lot after the bumpy start. I'm still kinda lost about the world building tho like I'm not clear on the whole setting situation like the penitentiary and the university and everything is in Merit or where Lockland was maybe it WAS explained but I drifted off. I also didn't get how EO's were already part of this universe's psyche and how the legends about them came to be or whatever but maybe it's explained on the second book idk. But yeah this was cool. VE doesn't wow me with her writing, but she does a hell of a job designing a hard to break away from story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Self harm, and Torture

a_very_dyslexic_reader's review

dark reflective tense medium-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: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gun violence, Torture, Death, and Cursing

Minor: Child death and Animal death

goosegame's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Both main characters are awful and I love them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, and Drug abuse

jehansflowers's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

GOOD SHIT

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and War

the suicide is for Science Reasons, but is still relatively graphic. animal death is a dog, & isnt permanent

one of the characters has the ability to raise the dead, and has to raise the dog twice