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Vicious by V.E. Schwab

80 reviews

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

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

villainsandpoets's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

V. E Schwab could email me her to-do list and I would read it AND rate it 5 stars anywhere possible AND suggest it to everyone.  Best author of our times for a reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Religious bigotry, and Toxic friendship

ttumbletree's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Torture, Grief, Abandonment, and Alcohol

anntharai's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

A thoroughly entertaining and dark read, there’s a lot to chew over and think about with this book , an grand show of inventiveness from VES as I’ve come to expect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Alcohol

katiezew's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

4.5

Love the concept of this book. The ending is as satisfying as a story like this could be. Excited for the sequel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol

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: Violence, Murder, and Gaslighting

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

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

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, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Murder

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

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

alice_clay's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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: Death, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying and Alcohol

pinkhyxteria's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Addiction, Mental illness, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Alcohol

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