Vengeful (Villains #2) by V.E. Schwab

"A direct continuation of Vicious, Schwab leads the reader on a fast paced, violent, adventure that follows three separate storylines that eventually all come together. Like the threads of a spiderweb, everyone's tangled up in it and as Mitch says, "There's no good guys in this game." Great series overall."

3 Stars

Pros: Schwab has succeeded in making the entire cast of characters both likable but also terribly flawed/Victor and Eli are both easy to love and to hate/The ending was open ended enough that I feel it can be left as is and the reader can imagine what happens.

Cons: The time jumps, I just couldn't keep track of them and eventually I stopped trying. I figured, at some point, everything would come together and it did but the time jumps really irked me/The part with Dr. Haverty seemed rushed and terribly convenient.

Full Review:

Picking up right where Vicious left off, well, I feel like I can't really give a review because that would give everything away. But suffice it to say that the cast of characters from the first book are not the only EOs out there and that Eli and Victor's hypothesis, seems to be proving true and happening more often than they thought it would.

It was a good read, a good companion or conclusion to the duology, however Schwab wants to treat it. The ending was open ended enough that Schwab could add another book but it doesn't feel absolutely necessary and that's rare for a series. I felt like everything was pretty well wrapped up with a neat bow at the end.

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