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Vendetta

Catherine Doyle

3.75 AVERAGE


It's stupid how good this is

DNF. Creepy and unrealistic. Characters with extremely flawed moral compasses.

We follow two main characters; Sophie, who’s father is in prison for a committing a murder and Nic, the one of the new boys in town. Sophie works at her families diner, her uncle having taken it over at her father’s request.

Sophie is a very determined character who recognises that something is amiss. Her uncle acts distant and is never in town; he’s always up in the city on a ‘business trip’ or in another ‘meeting’. With her best friend in tow, she is determined to figure out the new guys on the block. When she does, it results in a death like no other in Sophie’s life; all it takes is her to figuring out why the brothers are in town.

Vendetta tells a tale of drama, love and hate. It creates a gritty atmosphere in which there is no clear good or bad side to be on. We see relationships break, form and struggle, which presses you to read on, to read more. As a YA novel, I highly suggest picking this one up, my first gang thriller and I was hooked.

This book was really good. Can't wait to read the second book
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

If someone throws a book at me and says, ‘modern day Romeo and Juliet’, I’m sold. I bought Vendetta with increasing excitement, and quickly sat down to read it.

And I did enjoy it. It didn’t blow me away, but it was a quick, easy read. Easy except for a few key points, which were quite shocking and visceral. Barry Cunningham of Chicken House mentions that the book is like watching a movie, and I have to agree. The book is fast-paced and filled with action – as you’d expect from a book about a criminal underworld.

Sophie was wonderful as a character, but the most surprising character was Luca; I really didn’t think I’d like him as much as I ended up doing. I also had a soft spot for Valentino; I’m a sucker for soft-spoken, intellectual guys.

What I will say is that at points the book, even though fast-paced, had a few moments where it seemed to lag. I found myself almost skimming at those points – but overall, the book is a great young adult book, with a fresh new voice to add to the young adult fiction world.

This book. This is a good start of a series!

AAAAH!
This boook was so so good
I root for LUCA <3

This is kind of like a mobster version of Romeo and Juliet.

It totally has a frustrating love triangle beginning and I am already rolling my eyes and disapproving a great deal. It's very cheesy and channels Twilight often - Nico is basically an Italian mobster Edward. The story is pretty implausible.

But.

It's a very fun read. it's interesting. It's engaging. It's relatively well written, cheesiness and Twilight-iness aside. The characters are fun, and if they aren't then they're fun to laugh at. The plot doesn't suck.

I don't think it should be a trilogy (WHYYYYY I hate trilogies they are ruined for me forever come on publishing houses stop iiitttt.) But it's worth a read. Good summer funtime book.

No le he puesto la máxima puntuación porque en algunas partes me ha parecido muy similar a Mirame y Dispara de Alessandra Neymar y porque creo que el romance ha sido demasiado rápido.
Sin embargo creo que tiene mucho potencial y dentro de poco empezare el siguiente porque el final del libro es de infarto.