**Mixed Feelings About "Vengeful"**

The first thing that struck me about this book was how confusing it was at times. I had trouble keeping track of characters and their relationships, especially with the multiple time periods jumping around. This lack of clarity made it difficult for me to fully engage with the story.

In contrast, I really enjoyed the two new main characters in this book. As strong females, they were a breath of fresh air, and I appreciated the complexity that came with them. However, I couldn't help but feel like we didn't get enough of our favorite characters from the first book, particularly Sydney and Serena. Their storylines felt somewhat on the back burner, which was a shame because I was eager to learn more about their powers and experiments.

Another aspect that disappointed me was the handling of certain plot threads. June's character, in particular, left me with many unanswered questions. Her motivations and backstory were shrouded in mystery, leaving me feeling frustrated and eager for more information. Her explosive personality also felt somewhat one-dimensional at times, making it hard to connect with her on a deeper level.

The ending of the book was also a letdown for me. It felt rushed and confusing, with many plot points resolved in a matter of pages. The revelation that Eli might not die after all was shocking, but I couldn't shake off the feeling that it didn't make sense in the context of the story. The use of the serum to suppress Victor's powers also seemed like a convenient plot device, rather than a organic part of the narrative.

**The End of an Era**

As I finished reading "Vengeful", I couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness. This book marked the end of an era for me, as it was my final installment in this series. While I loved the first book, "Vicious", it set a high standard that this sequel could never quite live up to. Despite its flaws, I still enjoyed the story and the characters, but it felt like a reminder that all good things must come to an end.

**Looking Ahead**

One thing is certain: there will be a third book in this series. I'm expecting it, and I'm eagerly anticipating the opportunity to learn more about these complex characters. While "Vengeful" didn't blow me away, I still believe that the author has the potential to create something truly special.

As for now, I'm left with many questions. What will happen to June? Will we ever learn more about her mysterious past? How will Victor's powers evolve in the future? These are just a few of the many questions swirling in my head. I'm eager to hear your thoughts on these matters and discuss them further.

**Conclusion**

"Vengeful" was a mixed bag for me, with both highs and lows. While it didn't live up to the standards set by "Vicious", I still enjoyed the story and the characters. With some tweaks and refinements, I believe that this series has the potential to become truly epic.

If you're a fan of this series or are new to it, I encourage you to join me in eagerly awaiting the next installment. Let's discuss our theories and predictions about what's to come. Together, we can navigate the complexities of this world and uncover its secrets.

**Leaving You with Questions**

As I close this article, I'm left with more questions than answers. Will the author be able to resolve these plot threads in a satisfying way? Can June's character be fleshed out further? What will happen to Victor's powers?

One thing is certain: I'll be waiting eagerly for the next book in this series. If you've read "Vengeful", I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Share your theories, your questions, and your opinions about what's to come. Let's keep the conversation going!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone today I'm here to talk about vengeful by ve Schwab this is the second book in the villain series so I'm going to be talking all about it I will do a brief synopsis of the first book vicious I will be talking about spoilers about this book in this video but I will let you know when so you are safe to watch until I say so so like I said this is the second book in the villain series the first one being issues so vicious came out a few years ago I want to say like 5 almost it's been a long time awaited for this sequence is about two college students named Victor and Eli and their roommates and they kind of get along with a dull I think they're really competitive towards each other and wants to one-up it one one-up each other they both have kind of really falling out kind of lives and basically Eli discovers cos or extraordinary and he discovers that iou's are kind of made by near-death experiences are actually dying and a little bit and then being brought back to life so Eli confides in to Victor about this and they decide to experiment with it they decide to use themselves as the test subjects and to kind of put themselves into near death pretty much death experiences and see if they will become an eeo not a spoiler warning they do and basically what happens from there is a big falling out happens and Victor gets put into jail and this book is told alternating with timelines it starts off with Victor in jail and him plotting to get out and to kill Eli and hunting him down and then we also go back to the time that they were in college when they this whole EEO process began so that is basically she's all about a vicious it's one of my favorite books of all time I will let you know that these are adult books they are not yai no Victoria Schwab is her ye handle but ve Schwab is her adult handle so just know there's a lot of adult language in it there's a lot of brutality gore eNOS just kind of evilness so just so you know these are not why I in the slide it's just the notion of good versus evil right versus wrong or could there be a middle in that like is there shades of grey in between those different conflicting conflicting sides it is addictive Fred a good majority of the issue Oz or swear your books and there has not been one they haven't really enjoyed strictly from her writing her writing is beautiful flow so well the book is confusing a little bit because of the alternating time but regardless you're gonna get sucked in you're gonna get enamored and fall is the perfect time to read this book trust you me if you're looking for a great like kind of gritty dark book about good versus evil please read vicious you will not be disappointed is amazing so highly recommend vicious I want to talk about that core going into vengeful so vengeful just came out like I said it's been about five years waiting for the sequel and I really enjoyed it I didn't love it as much as I wanted to and I'm not surprised by that I don't want to say like I'm completely shocked that I didn't fall in love with it know sometimes with sequels lurk hit or miss and this wasn't a Miss for me but it wasn't like a 100% hit for me there were some problems I had with it I think it had some flaws and overall I didn't love it as much as vicious it feels very much like a middle book and I thought that there was gonna be only two books in the series it was gonna be do ology after finishing this I feel like there's no way this can be a duology there are so many questions left unanswered there's a cliffhanger you just don't know what is like nothing has wrapped up the way it should be so I have to believe that there's going to be a third novel we may have to wait five years to get it but I'm determined that there's going to be another novel because we have so many questions answers so in regards of it if it is a trilogy it does feel very much like a middle book to me where it's kind of like you get some questions answered but then you get a lot of new questions and it just feels like you know a middle book in a series I hate saying that but it just feels like that to me if I can give this a star rating I would give it a four and a half out of five I feel like I've been slamming it but I've really enjoyed it I finished it very quickly I was as enamoured from start to finish with this book but I wanted it to be a 5 but it wasn't a 5 for me and I'll go into more details in the spoilers section of why but today you know if you love vicious you have to read more about Victor and Eli and their progression the story but overall I just didn't love it as much as I wanted to but I'm not surprised does that make any sense so now let's talk about spoilers so from here or not if you have not read vengeful please do not watch any further I do not want to spoil it for you and if you haven't finished it go finish the book and come back and watch this and let's talk all about it because have a lot of unanswered questions maybe you can help me with some maybe not but either right let's talk about them so spoilers ahead whole bunch of notes um they're all out of order so forgive me is this going to be kind of up all over the place review but he was not oh my you know so this book takes place pretty much right after vicious ended so vicious ended with Victor dying but I think we all kind of knew that Sydney was gonna bring him back to life which she does and that's exactly what happens in vengeful but the only problem is is Victor has brought back to life if you problematic things with that as Sydney brings like people back to life or animals there's always a little kink into bringing them back and Victor's is that he constantly dies so his powers is like cause pain a lot I think with electricity and just like all that kind of stuff so he his thing after he gets brought back to life this is power and testifies and it kills anybody around him and it kills himself because it just like explodes and he dies for a few minutes and then he wakes up again to start life again so it's happening more and more frequently for him and for longer so for the first time it starts for him he maybe dies for 30 seconds and the next time it'll be a minute and it just gets longer and longer and he knows that eventually what's gonna happen is that when his power surge a lot he's gonna die and he's gonna die for good so we have that going on Victor that's his whole storyline is progressing of that and I'll come back to that we also have Eli's at the end of vicious we also got to see Eli going to jail where Victor was and Eli is just in prison and he's kind of skulking around but he's actually getting experimented on by this evil doctor I forget the name and he the doctor just cuts Eli open and it really examines how fast he can heal because Eli you know is like he can't die pretty much any like the doctor will insert foreign objects into him and see what happens and basically the doctor discovered that I think if it's small enough you can insert something in my skin and he like it will I don't know he makes somehow he makes the serum of that can suppress the powers of a neo which is insanity I think his name is dr. Herbert E but either way he sermons on Eli that's what's going on the Eli there's more about him two brand new characters in this book called Marcella and June the book kind of begins I don't know or towards the beginning we have the introduction of Marcella and she is a mob wife and her husband and her have a marriage for a while and it's going good and basically her husband comes home one day and she realized that he has cheated on her and she doesn't take it nicely at all neither would I and she's like you know what and they start fighting and physical things are happening and basically a fire erupts in their house and Marcela's husband kind of leaves her there to die and he assumes that she's dead and she does die in the fire but she comes back and her power is like destroying everything she touches which I've noticed that like people like die in the circumstance there and that has something to do with her yo Powers like Victor was like on a table with all this like electricity or like you know I'm saying like I don't know this electricity but that's his power Sydney I was kind of in a frozen bathtub and I think you thought a lot of things it's also a lot of those thoughts about when they die - that makes any sense so like Marcela's last thought our last words to her I swear I will ruin her I will ruin you so basically that is what Marsellus power is everything she touches well like if it's wood it'll like if it's like metal it'll turn to ash she just destroys anything that she touches we also have Jun who's kind of a human boo doo doll at first I thought she can just change personalities or just change her skin to look like anybody else's basically she cannot feel any pain if she's in someone else's like skin she can transform in anybody else it's very interesting she is a very much mystery of a character um so in this book sorry Viktor who has a big problem with dying over and over again so he goes on the hunt for AOS who can help cure him and every time he meets the EO that doesn't help cure him he kills them because he doesn't want to get his path traced back to him and it kind of does a full circle like in the first book of that's what that's what Eli did he would kill Yas because he felt that was the right thing to do and Victor's not killing iou's does that make Eli does that make Victor in the same playing field as Eli doesn't make him any better than he like he's doing the exactly the same thing and just like in vicious and just like ambitious Eli's until this most like Victor was in jail so we have a lot of different things going on this book takes a lot of different paths and again like the first one we have the different time jumps we would have different characters and they would talk about five years leading up to their character leading up to this timeline in fusing the first one got confusing but we didn't have as many characters in the first one as we do and vengeful vengeful was just very like I felt kind of choppy with the the jumps in time and overall I was just very like I had to flip back several times reading the book to figure out where we were what character were with what time period it was it was just and with this book I feel like with these two new characters which I really enjoyed because they were strong females I love that but we didn't get a ton of Victor in Eli which is why I think a lot of people love vicious including myself I feel like we kind of just got they were on the back burner because they didn't have you know much intense plots like these first book as these two main characters do in this book so we didn't get a lot of them so I think that's why I didn't love this book as much as I wanted to because we had like we didn't have enough of our favorite characters like I really wanted more like Sydney was discovering her powers of kind of Resurrection and bringing things life back from the dead experimental things that she kind of experiments with Serena actions which is another unanswered question like she goes back to get her ashes but does she not do that or does she like is she gonna follow through it's bringing back Serena that would be very very interesting I'd love to hear more about that June is another big mystery of a character at the end of the book Marcel is like done which I've expected because she was just very explosive like she started off strong in the book that I really enjoyed her because she was a strong female and she took she didn't take no for an answer she did what she need to do but during the progression in the book I just just like she just wants power to have power and I kind of wasn't upset when she was act stuff because she was just getting kind of annoyed she was getting too greedy she was getting like she's the boss no one else and it was just so Juno is another big question like what is the history June we don't learn much about we don't know anything about her really and I want to know more she is an enigma and I have to know more about her but I just want to know more about as far as the ending goes the ending what happens is what does happen at the ending the ending I felt was so rushed like the last 20 pages I was so confused by because it happened literally in the blink of an eye so I think Eli eventually dies that is one thing that happens but it'sa gonna be brought back to life or not I don't know it's a very interesting question because I feel like you know I just can't die because the series is not done yet so Victor I think has gotten the serum from the doctor to help suppress his power which is gonna make him more vulnerable yes because there will be a time where he can't have his powers but it's a short-term solution for him dying repeatedly he needs to find like did the doctor die too I don't know if he did but is he gonna find another doctor to help him experiment the serum or is he gonna find somebody else to help him with he's repeatedly dying um what are yeah that's what happens at the ending and I don't feel like it was an explosive ending it was just kind of a lot happen at the ending and it didn't make any sense to me like June kind of brings in that she leaves and ends with June I just feel like I have a big question mark with the end of the series which I think it's probably intention because it keeps you watching more that is for sure but I mean I love this series I will read anything via Schwab's writes that is freaking the truce on a clarity on the ending I would love to hear your thoughts about it because I'm just confused as to what happened why it happened where do we go from here kind of thing so I'd love to hear your thoughts about vengeful overall like I said I really enjoyed it it didn't live up to vicious but that's okay I wasn't expecting to you because vicious was such an amazing first book it's kind of hard to live up to it sounds horrible but either way I really enjoyed it I want to see more of these characters I have to learn more about them are we ever gonna get at their book there has to be a third book right there's gonna have to be I'm expecting it in five years though like I'm not going to wait for anytime soon because this one took five years to make so yeah love to hear your thoughts about vengeful please leave them down below you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up hit subscribe and I will see you guys in the next by youhello everyone today I'm here to talk about vengeful by ve Schwab this is the second book in the villain series so I'm going to be talking all about it I will do a brief synopsis of the first book vicious I will be talking about spoilers about this book in this video but I will let you know when so you are safe to watch until I say so so like I said this is the second book in the villain series the first one being issues so vicious came out a few years ago I want to say like 5 almost it's been a long time awaited for this sequence is about two college students named Victor and Eli and their roommates and they kind of get along with a dull I think they're really competitive towards each other and wants to one-up it one one-up each other they both have kind of really falling out kind of lives and basically Eli discovers cos or extraordinary and he discovers that iou's are kind of made by near-death experiences are actually dying and a little bit and then being brought back to life so Eli confides in to Victor about this and they decide to experiment with it they decide to use themselves as the test subjects and to kind of put themselves into near death pretty much death experiences and see if they will become an eeo not a spoiler warning they do and basically what happens from there is a big falling out happens and Victor gets put into jail and this book is told alternating with timelines it starts off with Victor in jail and him plotting to get out and to kill Eli and hunting him down and then we also go back to the time that they were in college when they this whole EEO process began so that is basically she's all about a vicious it's one of my favorite books of all time I will let you know that these are adult books they are not yai no Victoria Schwab is her ye handle but ve Schwab is her adult handle so just know there's a lot of adult language in it there's a lot of brutality gore eNOS just kind of evilness so just so you know these are not why I in the slide it's just the notion of good versus evil right versus wrong or could there be a middle in that like is there shades of grey in between those different conflicting conflicting sides it is addictive Fred a good majority of the issue Oz or swear your books and there has not been one they haven't really enjoyed strictly from her writing her writing is beautiful flow so well the book is confusing a little bit because of the alternating time but regardless you're gonna get sucked in you're gonna get enamored and fall is the perfect time to read this book trust you me if you're looking for a great like kind of gritty dark book about good versus evil please read vicious you will not be disappointed is amazing so highly recommend vicious I want to talk about that core going into vengeful so vengeful just came out like I said it's been about five years waiting for the sequel and I really enjoyed it I didn't love it as much as I wanted to and I'm not surprised by that I don't want to say like I'm completely shocked that I didn't fall in love with it know sometimes with sequels lurk hit or miss and this wasn't a Miss for me but it wasn't like a 100% hit for me there were some problems I had with it I think it had some flaws and overall I didn't love it as much as vicious it feels very much like a middle book and I thought that there was gonna be only two books in the series it was gonna be do ology after finishing this I feel like there's no way this can be a duology there are so many questions left unanswered there's a cliffhanger you just don't know what is like nothing has wrapped up the way it should be so I have to believe that there's going to be a third novel we may have to wait five years to get it but I'm determined that there's going to be another novel because we have so many questions answers so in regards of it if it is a trilogy it does feel very much like a middle book to me where it's kind of like you get some questions answered but then you get a lot of new questions and it just feels like you know a middle book in a series I hate saying that but it just feels like that to me if I can give this a star rating I would give it a four and a half out of five I feel like I've been slamming it but I've really enjoyed it I finished it very quickly I was as enamoured from start to finish with this book but I wanted it to be a 5 but it wasn't a 5 for me and I'll go into more details in the spoilers section of why but today you know if you love vicious you have to read more about Victor and Eli and their progression the story but overall I just didn't love it as much as I wanted to but I'm not surprised does that make any sense so now let's talk about spoilers so from here or not if you have not read vengeful please do not watch any further I do not want to spoil it for you and if you haven't finished it go finish the book and come back and watch this and let's talk all about it because have a lot of unanswered questions maybe you can help me with some maybe not but either right let's talk about them so spoilers ahead whole bunch of notes um they're all out of order so forgive me is this going to be kind of up all over the place review but he was not oh my you know so this book takes place pretty much right after vicious ended so vicious ended with Victor dying but I think we all kind of knew that Sydney was gonna bring him back to life which she does and that's exactly what happens in vengeful but the only problem is is Victor has brought back to life if you problematic things with that as Sydney brings like people back to life or animals there's always a little kink into bringing them back and Victor's is that he constantly dies so his powers is like cause pain a lot I think with electricity and just like all that kind of stuff so he his thing after he gets brought back to life this is power and testifies and it kills anybody around him and it kills himself because it just like explodes and he dies for a few minutes and then he wakes up again to start life again so it's happening more and more frequently for him and for longer so for the first time it starts for him he maybe dies for 30 seconds and the next time it'll be a minute and it just gets longer and longer and he knows that eventually what's gonna happen is that when his power surge a lot he's gonna die and he's gonna die for good so we have that going on Victor that's his whole storyline is progressing of that and I'll come back to that we also have Eli's at the end of vicious we also got to see Eli going to jail where Victor was and Eli is just in prison and he's kind of skulking around but he's actually getting experimented on by this evil doctor I forget the name and he the doctor just cuts Eli open and it really examines how fast he can heal because Eli you know is like he can't die pretty much any like the doctor will insert foreign objects into him and see what happens and basically the doctor discovered that I think if it's small enough you can insert something in my skin and he like it will I don't know he makes somehow he makes the serum of that can suppress the powers of a neo which is insanity I think his name is dr. Herbert E but either way he sermons on Eli that's what's going on the Eli there's more about him two brand new characters in this book called Marcella and June the book kind of begins I don't know or towards the beginning we have the introduction of Marcella and she is a mob wife and her husband and her have a marriage for a while and it's going good and basically her husband comes home one day and she realized that he has cheated on her and she doesn't take it nicely at all neither would I and she's like you know what and they start fighting and physical things are happening and basically a fire erupts in their house and Marcela's husband kind of leaves her there to die and he assumes that she's dead and she does die in the fire but she comes back and her power is like destroying everything she touches which I've noticed that like people like die in the circumstance there and that has something to do with her yo Powers like Victor was like on a table with all this like electricity or like you know I'm saying like I don't know this electricity but that's his power Sydney I was kind of in a frozen bathtub and I think you thought a lot of things it's also a lot of those thoughts about when they die - that makes any sense so like Marcela's last thought our last words to her I swear I will ruin her I will ruin you so basically that is what Marsellus power is everything she touches well like if it's wood it'll like if it's like metal it'll turn to ash she just destroys anything that she touches we also have Jun who's kind of a human boo doo doll at first I thought she can just change personalities or just change her skin to look like anybody else's basically she cannot feel any pain if she's in someone else's like skin she can transform in anybody else it's very interesting she is a very much mystery of a character um so in this book sorry Viktor who has a big problem with dying over and over again so he goes on the hunt for AOS who can help cure him and every time he meets the EO that doesn't help cure him he kills them because he doesn't want to get his path traced back to him and it kind of does a full circle like in the first book of that's what that's what Eli did he would kill Yas because he felt that was the right thing to do and Victor's not killing iou's does that make Eli does that make Victor in the same playing field as Eli doesn't make him any better than he like he's doing the exactly the same thing and just like in vicious and just like ambitious Eli's until this most like Victor was in jail so we have a lot of different things going on this book takes a lot of different paths and again like the first one we have the different time jumps we would have different characters and they would talk about five years leading up to their character leading up to this timeline in fusing the first one got confusing but we didn't have as many characters in the first one as we do and vengeful vengeful was just very like I felt kind of choppy with the the jumps in time and overall I was just very like I had to flip back several times reading the book to figure out where we were what character were with what time period it was it was just and with this book I feel like with these two new characters which I really enjoyed because they were strong females I love that but we didn't get a ton of Victor in Eli which is why I think a lot of people love vicious including myself I feel like we kind of just got they were on the back burner because they didn't have you know much intense plots like these first book as these two main characters do in this book so we didn't get a lot of them so I think that's why I didn't love this book as much as I wanted to because we had like we didn't have enough of our favorite characters like I really wanted more like Sydney was discovering her powers of kind of Resurrection and bringing things life back from the dead experimental things that she kind of experiments with Serena actions which is another unanswered question like she goes back to get her ashes but does she not do that or does she like is she gonna follow through it's bringing back Serena that would be very very interesting I'd love to hear more about that June is another big mystery of a character at the end of the book Marcel is like done which I've expected because she was just very explosive like she started off strong in the book that I really enjoyed her because she was a strong female and she took she didn't take no for an answer she did what she need to do but during the progression in the book I just just like she just wants power to have power and I kind of wasn't upset when she was act stuff because she was just getting kind of annoyed she was getting too greedy she was getting like she's the boss no one else and it was just so Juno is another big question like what is the history June we don't learn much about we don't know anything about her really and I want to know more she is an enigma and I have to know more about her but I just want to know more about as far as the ending goes the ending what happens is what does happen at the ending the ending I felt was so rushed like the last 20 pages I was so confused by because it happened literally in the blink of an eye so I think Eli eventually dies that is one thing that happens but it'sa gonna be brought back to life or not I don't know it's a very interesting question because I feel like you know I just can't die because the series is not done yet so Victor I think has gotten the serum from the doctor to help suppress his power which is gonna make him more vulnerable yes because there will be a time where he can't have his powers but it's a short-term solution for him dying repeatedly he needs to find like did the doctor die too I don't know if he did but is he gonna find another doctor to help him experiment the serum or is he gonna find somebody else to help him with he's repeatedly dying um what are yeah that's what happens at the ending and I don't feel like it was an explosive ending it was just kind of a lot happen at the ending and it didn't make any sense to me like June kind of brings in that she leaves and ends with June I just feel like I have a big question mark with the end of the series which I think it's probably intention because it keeps you watching more that is for sure but I mean I love this series I will read anything via Schwab's writes that is freaking the truce on a clarity on the ending I would love to hear your thoughts about it because I'm just confused as to what happened why it happened where do we go from here kind of thing so I'd love to hear your thoughts about vengeful overall like I said I really enjoyed it it didn't live up to vicious but that's okay I wasn't expecting to you because vicious was such an amazing first book it's kind of hard to live up to it sounds horrible but either way I really enjoyed it I want to see more of these characters I have to learn more about them are we ever gonna get at their book there has to be a third book right there's gonna have to be I'm expecting it in five years though like I'm not going to wait for anytime soon because this one took five years to make so yeah love to hear your thoughts about vengeful please leave them down below you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up hit subscribe and I will see you guys in the next by you\n"