Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

60 reviews

vilima's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicide attempt, and Animal death

psliz's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.75

loved the plot. loved the different storylines. loved the grey morality.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Self harm, Gun violence, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

nie_fertig's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Shoutout to my friend Elian for recommending this book, and my friend Myla for wanting me to read it as well! Let me just say, the pacing is slow - especially in the beginning - but then it all comes together and everything crumbles chaotically in the end - I LOVE it!! These characters are so, so flawed too and it's really interesting how Schwab writes the two main characters (Victor and Eli) to not be likable and for the audience to not really pick a side between the rivalry because they're both horrible people and only think of themselves (except when they think of each other - you CANNOT tell me victor and eli aren't gay for each other - even though they want to kill each other, they think about one another ALL THE TIME like they literally woundn't have a purpose in life without one another - it's similar vibes to Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Aufidius).
Anyway, I also wanted to mention even though you're not supposed to be Team Victor or Team Eli, I'm still Team Victor because at least he doesn't say "I'm going to kill in the name of God," unlike Eli, which is terrifying and gives me The Batter from OFF vibes (wanting to "purify" the entire land, even if that means he has to kill his "monstrous" wife and child UGH). So, I'll see how the second book goes and see if I'm still Team Victor.
P.S. Mitch is a big softie and I love him <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Emotional abuse

danireads01's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Mental illness, Gore, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Murder, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Drug use, Drug abuse, Confinement, and Animal death

ryankaybee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

darkty's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Suicide attempt, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Sexual content

saurahsaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gaslighting, Gore, Torture, Medical content, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Child death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Addiction, Classism, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Suicide, Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

annierose's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

As usual, V.E. Schwab gets me with the premise of her stories. Vicious sounded really good and like something I really wanted to get into: morally grey characters, 'superpowers', and former friends turned enemies — I was intrigued, I like angst, okay? But then the book seemed to be missing ... something. I did enjoy it and I found it interesting enough to keep reading, obviously. But somehow the story felt too short, too snappy, and I'm left feeling like there should've been a little more story in there, like it's a good book, but it could've been great if it had more meat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Drug abuse

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

helliepad's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Fellas is it gay to want your college best friend dead after you both let a science experiment and a girl come between the two of you and you hunted each other for years and your literal life's purpose is to only stab each other to death but neither of you can actually die but you have to die in each other's hands and you are Jekyll and Hyde and he's Frankenstein

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug abuse, Torture, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and Chronic illness