Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

44 reviews

fernyfh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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 death, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide attempt

bookworm247's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Torture, and Death

kimtazo's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

louise_o's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

Oh, this was delicious. There’s just something about books about academia tipping into madness….This was VE Schwab to the core, with strong Ninth House vibes and an under current of The Secret History (if it were paranormal). This book is about men who make themselves into monsters; about the blurred line between hero and villain and what happens when its crossed. The main character is unabashedly bad and evil and murderous. He is horrible and cruel and awful and yet, here I fucking am, rooting for him all the same. Theres definitely some complex stuff about morality and faith in there, but its 1am so I probably didn’t comprehend that to its deserved depth. I LOVE the setting of a university and the overall sense of something sinister taking place. At times horrifying and almost always unnerving, this delivered exactly what I was hoping it would. I did think that it was a bit slow at some points, and I’m hoping its a duology and not a trilogy. But, yeah. VE Schwab delivers once again (it seems thats her thing). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Torture, Murder, Self harm, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

thereadingnurse2021's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Gun violence, and Violence

pasavedra's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

limwora's review against another edition

dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

SUCH A GREAT BOOK OMG 

i dont care if victor is an asshole, he killed serena, nothing else matters. to be honest, all characters in this book are made to be either currupt or currupted by proxy (ie. sydney and mitch), the façt both eli and victor are terrible people is kinda the point, they both suck, eli just has the plus of being a fucking religious fanatic and dumb as hell meanwhile victor can actually use logic and think rationally. serena is the type of character i hate the most, had everything to be the smartest person in the room and yet decided to be the stuppiest, and died for that. the ending is bittersweet as sydney is forced to live with the people that killed her sister, while believing eli was the one that did it and deeply trusting both mitch and victor. nonetheless, im happy my e quartet (or quintet? is dominic with them now?) is alive, and look, most of them only died once… or twice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

villainsandpoets's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

V. E Schwab could email me her to-do list and I would read it AND rate it 5 stars anywhere possible AND suggest it to everyone.  Best author of our times for a reason.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcohol, Torture, Blood, Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Toxic friendship, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Religious bigotry

halclylonrain's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Murder, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse

alexiab's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was, in a word, intense.

It’s probably the darkest story I’ve read in a while. it’s unsettling and gruesome and yet intriguing as all hell. I couldn’t stop reading it. I had to know what was going to happen.

I absolutely love the way VE Schwab gets inside a characters mind and breaks down who they are. Most of these characters are absolute monsters, and yet there is something underneath each of them that’s understandable, that almost makes you want to sympathize with their perspective. Which is bat shit insane? They’re monsters?! but I think it adds to the magic of this storytelling. 

I spent the majority of my reading this book warring between being horrified at how gruesome the story could be and absolutely loving the chaos and unravelling of the story. I think that speaks to very good writing, to be able to have the WORST characters and still keep the reader enthralled. 

I’m only taking off half a star because I don’t know if this is the kind of book I could read again. But I don’t think it’s intended to be a frequent visit kind of story, so that’s not the book’s fault. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic friendship, and Violence