Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

93 reviews

oliverreeds's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.75

great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

4.5

 4.5 rounded up! I'm so glad that Victorious is coming, that ending sure is a hanger. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

dododenise's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-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

I really liked this book. It was a great continuation of vicious and added a lot more interesting aspects.

The story was beautifully crafted. It created lot’s of loose threads, sending you into different times and to different characters. Slowly the story comes together. It should be complicated. It should have confused me. But somehow the complexities of the story were threaded together so elegantly, it barely was any effort. 
I like how at first you don’t even know what the plot of the book will be and it’s just about creating the story for these characters. 

Loved June as an addition to the story. However, I wasn’t a fan of Marcella. I didn’t like reading from her perspective and had to drag myself through those bits. She just falls flat in contrast to the other amazing characters. 

I wished for more Eli and Victor together. I know logically, that would’ve been really difficult to do. But those two together are so much fun to read. 

Overall a really great book. Beautifully written, wonderful characters and interesting story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

bookthief404's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

Incredible. 
Once again Schwab doesn't disappoint. 
I love the set up of starting from an unknown point and only giving the reader snippets from '3 weeks ago' to 'yesterday afternoon'. I loved putting the pieces together of what the separate characters were doing and seeing it all come together. The anticipation as the time got shorter leading to the climax was really fun to watch unravel. 

The ending was satisfying yet not at all. I like how open-ended Shwab left it. We sympathise with Victor already so we are relieved when he 'wins' (if you can call it that), and yet there isn't really a happy-family happy ending as we were led to hope for. 
This is the kind of thing I love. I wish Sydney and Mitch and even June all the best until I meet them again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nyssbomb's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

elsaemmalise's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

thebankofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

bahamyulala's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

The beginning is too slow but the rest of the book makes it impossible to put it down.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content and Murder

Minor: Animal death

sarah_cameron's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was perfect from start to end! It kept me constantly on the edge of my seat and was such a great follow up to the first book. Can’t recommend highly enough 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Sexism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Police brutality, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Vomit, Stalking, and Car accident