A review by theferalhousewivesbookclub
Vicious Fae by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

4.0

Spice: 2.5/5
Plot: 4.5/5

Heavy spoiler warning cuz this is gunna be a chaotic, rapid fire thoughts kinda review lol. If you haven’t started these, save this, read them and then come back. Now skedaddle on outta here, k thanks.

I feel like we’re FINALLY making some progress with this plot. Freakin took long enough lol. For the most part, Leo carried this book on his shoulders and thank fuck I’ve had a change of heart about him. Homeboy went from last place to a firm second haha. No one will ever beat Ryder though. As per usual with this series, the last 15% had me stressing, but this one was next level. I was legit sweating and nervous as fuck for a bit there. No where on my bingo card did I have that ending as an option and it fucking ROCKED me lol. The way literally every single fucking guy reacted just crushed me. I might have to say fuck my reading plan and go back to Solaria a little sooner than I had anticipated cuz I really need to know what happens haha.

Chaotic thoughts…
- Gabriel is driving me fucking mental.
- Rydikins will always have my heart lol.
- Getting to see Orion in all of his pitball glory is absolutely perfect! I’m glad that I started ZA and then came back to this instead of reading it first.
- When Elise went full psycho on his ass, I mean he let her win but that was still pretty epic lol.
- Cindy Lou’s little dragon shrine, wtf lol.
- Ryder and Dante are going to do whatever little star dance they need to in order to break their astral adversaries bond. Calling it right now.
- When they go to ZA and meet the heirs when they’re young was hilarious. I really really enjoyed that glimpse of them.
- The Lion King. I’ve always loved this movie but now I love it even more lol.
- The way that Leon has just gone above and beyond for Elise and trying to bring everyone together is just the sweetest fucking thing and it actually makes so much sense that he’s the first one to have their own whatever the fuck it’s called moment.
- When Elise finally comes clean and it just guts Leo, I felt that shit to my core. But then the way he comes back and the way shit goes down… uuugh, it was perfection.
- When Orion gets loved potioned, lmfao.
- Now knowing where Noxy and Orio actually come from! Fucking love it.
- Ryder and Dante when they finally say fuck their deal… yes please. All the yes please lol.
- But the way that gutted Leo… shit.
- I could do an entire post with nothing but Leo quotes from this book. There were SO many lines and moments from him that I’m obsessed with now.
- The way that Gabriel’s full power was unlocked, of course it had to be like that, but the fact that I didn’t figure it out and the way it went down was brilliant.

And to end this crazy review off, my favourite quote some the entire book:

“I’m not a fucking Lion,” Ryder disagreed. “You are. You’re Scar, Dante’s Mufasa and I’m Simba and Gabe is…Zazu.”

Xo
- J