Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

14 reviews

deadpoetsam's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Addiction, Forced institutionalization, and Confinement

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

Graphic: Death, Child death, Animal death, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Forced institutionalization

katreadswaytoomuch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

A fantastic evolution from YA fantasy to Adult Fantasy!

Little to no focus on romance

We love a morally grey character, but Victor is as grey as they come. Everything is a means to an end and something or someone has value based on how useful they are to him. It’s incredible to watch his mind work.

There’s also some really great ethical questions posed around self-awareness and humanity. Some of the observation were really clever.

And the last chapter was just 😆😆😆❤️❤️❤️ icing on the cake

Please look up the potential triggers for this book. I’ll include a list below that I noticed because I’ll admit I struggled with some of the violence in this 

I will be honest. It’s really hard being surprised by death when there’s a character who can revive the dead. There. I said it. Unfortunately I think that really took away from the oh no they’re dead factor because it was established pretty early on in the book, but it’s still there like, “oh no can she not do it this time for some reason”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

camilagutierrez's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

4.0

I wasn't sure how I felt through out the book. Something I really enjoyed was how the story was structured. You saw different points of view but it didn't get boring or felt unnecessary. The chapters were really short which I liked. The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of five because although I really liked the story and I would reccomend it, I wouldn't read it again. 

I thought the take on Eli's character was interesting, how he is driven to please God. I certianly don't like him but I also didn't like Victor. I guess I really only liked Mitch, I thought some of his lines were entertaining. Very dark characters, and not the typical "heros". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Blood

Moderate: Self harm, Murder, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Fire/Fire injury