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Vicious by V.E. Schwab

108 reviews

komurph's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Violence, Death, Suicide, Murder, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use

siennakt30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Animal death, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, and Car accident

janin's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

bottom line it was just really fun to read. the characters are dark and twisted and you go through every phase of liking and hating them and everything's so angsty and dramatic. i have my own nitpicky things to dock points off from my personal rating but this was a fantastic read. will definitely read the sequel(s).

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

thisiscourt's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Drug use

lindseyhall44's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

4.0

In an Instagram post last month,
V.E Schwab publicized an editors comment, which read “you’re readers will follow you anywhere.” Out of all the authors I have read over the years, I cannot think of one more fitting of this than Schwab, and Vicious is just the latest example.
Vicious follows two best friends, Victor and Eli, and the dark path that awaits them as a science thesis goes horribly wrong. The experiment in question: what is the essence behind an ExtraOrdinary person….and is it possible to create one?
I love the philosophical questions intertwined with the dark academia setting and more gruesome plot progressions, since it rounds into a more complex story. Even though Victor is a morally gray character, I still found myself rooting for him, in spite of his numerous faults. I think this goes to show the significance of character development in Schwab’s work (even the side characters), something I am exciting to read more of in the future. I have a feeling that the sequel (vengeful) will be a five star read for me, since there is less “magic system” development:)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Gore, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug use, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Abandonment, and Medical content

Minor: War

reyeve__'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

4.0

first half was 5 star, second half was 3 stars so evened out to 4 overall. Literally perfect if Eli had better character motivation and the book was another 100 pages long imo, that, and the fact that most of the book felt pretty rushed is my only criticism. chefs kiss besides that. I LOVE v.e schwab’s writing style mmm

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Self harm, and Gun violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

kaadee's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Again this man is going to have to go into my book of ‘Fictional characters with white hair that I want to fuck’

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, Drug use, and Medical trauma

thewildmageslibrary's review against another edition

dark

5.0

Okay, wow. I didn't know anything about this except Victor Vale is not a bleeping sidekick and he's morally grey. Didn't expect LITERALLY

killing yourselves to get powers

!!
This was gooood. Violent, but good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Death, Suicide, Blood, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Child death, Drug use, and Medical content

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: Police brutality, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Animal death, Blood, Murder, Religious bigotry, Violence, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Torture, and Toxic friendship

widgetknits's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Gore, Blood, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Murder, Death, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail