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Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

7 reviews

i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.0

This wasn't as good as the first one, but I enjoyed it enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Animal death, and Gun violence

Minor: Infidelity and Alcoholism

psliz'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

3.5

underdeveloped. would've been better if the two main storylines were split into their own books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Gun violence, Death, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Child abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Animal death

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

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

junefish's review

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

quil's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Alcoholism

karinahull's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Blew through this one just like I did with Vicious. Even though she's

the main villain, I really loved Marcella's character

. I felt like her motivations were very clear and as a woman reading this, honestly pretty relatable at times. I also enjoyed getting some more insight into Eli and other major characters. Fast read, fun plot, interesting characters, and well written, what more do you need? 

The ending felt almost unfinished! Is there another book coming out?? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Torture