A review by anastasiaf
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No

3.75

I don’t know how to feel about this book, but that’s mainly because I’ve forgotten what happened in this book vs the one before.

It feels very slow, written as a screenplay for a TV show from the 2010s - so much happened and yet nothing really? 

It has interesting characters and ideas, but something fundamental is missing. Curious to read what others think.

I will still read book 3 (if/when it comes out, but I kind of hope it’s the last one).

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  • agreed that author’s writing has clearly improved a lot since the last book
  • I didn’t like marcella, unlike others
  • Didn’t love the back and forth again, SPOILER and I’m especially confused why so much time was spent on it when Marcella didn’t ultimately matter that much and she was killed anyway? 
  • Eli’s backstory is so tragic, and the parallels were tough to read (in a good-writing way) 
  • Sydney’s story didn’t go anywhere really, which was annoying
  • I wish this had been shorter and/or the end of the series 
  • SPOILER I was worried nothing was really going to happen after the marble broke, but then so much did in quick succession? It was a little jarring 
  • Someone said the author doesn’t know if she’s going to write a third book? That’s so confusing as this was not a satisfying end at all. 
  • Did we ever get an explanation of why June cared so much about Sydney?