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A review by jwells
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
dark
emotional
fast-paced
I don't know how to review Vicious and Vengeful, except that I read them practically compulsively, and could hardly put them down. I don't usually like an antihero, or a book that is lean on likeable characters, but that didn't seem to apply to these.
I finished Vengeful thinking about Brandon Sanderson's sliding scales of protagonists: likeability, competence, and proactivity. He says that if you are sliding one of them down, you can compensate by sliding the others up. If all of them are low, readers lose interest in your protagonist. Victor is extremely high on proactivity. I also thought, there might be another scale for vulnerability: both Victor and Eli discover in this book that they are far from invulnerable, in spite of their superpowers, and that also makes them more sympathetic and interesting as protagonists.
I finished Vengeful thinking about Brandon Sanderson's sliding scales of protagonists: likeability, competence, and proactivity. He says that if you are sliding one of them down, you can compensate by sliding the others up. If all of them are low, readers lose interest in your protagonist. Victor is extremely high on proactivity. I also thought, there might be another scale for vulnerability: both Victor and Eli discover in this book that they are far from invulnerable, in spite of their superpowers, and that also makes them more sympathetic and interesting as protagonists.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Torture, and Medical trauma
As in the first book, some deaths that are temporary, and others that are permanent.