A review by corin_134340
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

emotional tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

  1. Way too many time jumps, too confusing that way.  —> felt like they were more frequent than in the first book? Or at least they didn’t come off as this confusing 
  2. I really don’t need the back story and povs of all the new characters, that’s not why I’m reading the second book of a series, also there’s too many new characters that seem to be important for the main plot (I wanted more Victor, Mick, Syd and Eli, not whatever this was)
  3. On the same note: random side characters getting povs is just so unnecessary (e.g. that one doctor, just to tell me he’s shady? I could have guessed that without wasting my time on a chapter from his point of view) —> makes me think that the author assumes the readers aren’t smart enough to guess the stuff that’s not being said. We are. The story is not that complicated. Subtext is a thing.
  4. Feel like comments 1 to 3 are the reason why the book is almost 600 pages long. But a lot of the chapters feel like fillers and I really could have done without them. —> book needs more "show, don’t tell", hate it when I’m handed every small piece of information (let the readers guess, don’t hand them everything)
  5. Definite Pro: Victor confirmed somewhere on the ace spectrum
  6. Still like the writing style (most of the time)

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