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Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

122 reviews

snapweed's review against another edition

dark tense medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Sexual assault

lukas_ty's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

mini_malist's review against another edition

challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, and Murder

queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

5 ⭐ CW: violence, gun violence, domestic abuse, child abuse, suicide, murder, sexual content, prescription drug misuse, torture, medical horror, descriptions of blood and gore 

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab is book 2 in the Villains duology. I loved this book just as much as the first one! Everyone is so delightfully awful, evil, and morally gray. 

This book doesn't focus as much on Victor Vale's pov, but we do still get to see what he's up to, but we get a lot of other pov chapters from some of the other characters, including some randos every now and then. Mostly we get POVs from Victor, Eli, Stell, Sydney, June, and Marcella. 

Since last book, Stell has created an organization called EON, ExtraOrdinary Neutralization, designed to hunt and contain EOs. Which brings us to the new EO introduced in this book, Marcella, a wife of a mob boss who has the ability to Ruin anything (metals rusts, wood decays, people shrivel into dust, etc.). She is deliciously wicked, gives no shits, and will not hide. Marcella wants power, and even though she is scary and a little bit (a lot a bit) of a sociopath, you can almost understand where she is coming from as a woman who has been only seen as a beautiful object with no say in anything. 

We get a lot more of Eli's backstory in this one, and it becomes quite clear that even before his forced near death experience, he was a psychopath. We also get more Sydney chapters this book, so we see how her ability has affected her in terms of aging (or lack of aging). This book kept me wanting more, and was difficult to put down. I flew through the end, because it was so fast paced. 

I loved these books! This definitely satisfies my TBR card prompt for Antagonist: a book your favorite villain would read. Since Victor is my favorite villain right now, I'd have to say he'd enjoy reading this, especially about Eli. I may have to look into borrowing the EO graphic novels now, since I'm not ready to let this world go. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

sunrae_booknook's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book so much. I usually am not a fan of book two but this was better than the first. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

aimicampbell's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

epsyphus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

The new characters and old ones balanced out nicely; I thought new ones forced the old ones into very interesting situations. The dual timeline thing was a little more complicated with more characters, but it was still manageable. I'd kill to read the third book right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death

noveltay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed Vicious more, but this was fantastic. I like how lots of characters were introduced, but it wasn’t overwhelming to follow along. Some of the new characters really, really got under my skin while the others were either hard to figure out or I couldn’t care for. 

Without spoiling: what happened to Eli in the lab… made my skin crawl and stomach twist.

It ended on some loose ends and if she finished writing here, I’d understand but at the same time I’d hope some of those ties were pulled together in a 3rd book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail