Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

51 reviews

nebulasaurus's review against another edition

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

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

pasavedra's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Took a quarter off bc of the future dumb angsty conflict that

Victor killed Serena

with Sydney blah blah blah and the pacing which was too off for me at times but other than that this was legitimately fun and absorbing to read. I had a nice time reading really felt like watching a thriller/superhero movie that distacts from the troubles of every day life. It's amusing but grounded too. I enjoyed it a lot after the bumpy start. I'm still kinda lost about the world building tho like I'm not clear on the whole setting situation like the penitentiary and the university and everything is in Merit or where Lockland was maybe it WAS explained but I drifted off. I also didn't get how EO's were already part of this universe's psyche and how the legends about them came to be or whatever but maybe it's explained on the second book idk. But yeah this was cool. VE doesn't wow me with her writing, but she does a hell of a job designing a hard to break away from story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

emily_reads09's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Police brutality

tall_glass_of_hotness2021's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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NOBODY writes villains like VE Schwab. I am traumatized, I am hurt and I will never be the same again. This shook me to my very core. Read for a reminder that life is never eternal, and at the end, we are all…monsters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

katreadswaytoomuch's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A fantastic evolution from YA fantasy to Adult Fantasy!

Little to no focus on romance

We love a morally grey character, but Victor is as grey as they come. Everything is a means to an end and something or someone has value based on how useful they are to him. It’s incredible to watch his mind work.

There’s also some really great ethical questions posed around self-awareness and humanity. Some of the observation were really clever.

And the last chapter was just 😆😆😆❤️❤️❤️ icing on the cake

Please look up the potential triggers for this book. I’ll include a list below that I noticed because I’ll admit I struggled with some of the violence in this 

I will be honest. It’s really hard being surprised by death when there’s a character who can revive the dead. There. I said it. Unfortunately I think that really took away from the oh no they’re dead factor because it was established pretty early on in the book, but it’s still there like, “oh no can she not do it this time for some reason”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury

liveryaya's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death

_kimb's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Drug abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

victoriareads_'s review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Abandonment