{"id":2300,"date":"2018-10-02T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2018-10-02T05:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:01:43","slug":"vengeful-by-v-e-schwab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Vengeful, by V.E. Schwab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the proper genre category for this book (and the other in its series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00CQY7WBI\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B00CQY7WBI&amp;linkId=791cb873091f70d07fb92317c6e03bdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vicious<\/em><\/a>) is super-anti-hero story. The superpowers regularly at play in this plot do not in any way render their bearers heroic; quite the opposite. Here we see humanity in all its vicious, vengeful, self-centered &#8220;glory.&#8221; There is some loyalty, but mostly there is raw ambition, fear, attempts at control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The superpowers of this universe come from the events surrounding a person&#8217;s death&#8211;provided that it doesn&#8217;t stick. These near-deaths provide a range of powers not quite the same as the standard narratives&#8211;some bulletproof heroes, certainly, but the limitation of having to relate powers to death is an interesting one, and well suited for the dark kind of story Schwab is telling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every element of this book feels like it would adjust so well to film, and people love superhero stories and also revenge stories, so I hope they do film it. It&#8217;s full of beautiful dresses and dark places, elegant dinners and grueling fight scenes and terrifying pseudo-medical experiments. It is very, very noir, so if you want a book with kindness and hope, this is not that book. But if you want to dig your teeth into the throat of vengeance, well, Schwab&#8217;s got that elegantly covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765387522\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0765387522&amp;linkId=607b7e33bf17d4a7fe5c777d71467284\" target=\"_blank\">buy <em>Vengeful<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books. I think the proper genre category for this book (and the other in its series, Vicious) is super-anti-hero story. The superpowers regularly at play in this plot do not in any way render their bearers heroic; quite the opposite. Here we see humanity in all its vicious, vengeful, self-centered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}