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This Vicious Grace
by Emily Thiede
Quick Stats
Age Rating: 15+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
ARC acquired at YALLWest.
Seriously. This book was amazing. I read the whole thing in under 48 hours, and I am chomping at the bit for book 2. The worst part of ARCs will always be having to wait extra long for the sequels. I honestly don’t know how I’m going to do it.
Thrice married, thrice widowed, 18 year old Alessa is the only one with the power to save the world from the impending apocolypse—but she can’t use those powers when she kills every person she touches.
THE ANGST IN THIS BOOK. Immaculate.
A heroine who’s desperate for affection, but whose touch brings excruciating pain and death to anyone she so much as brushes her finger against—until she meets him. Think Juliette from Shatter Me type trope. Alessa has all the angsty longing of Juliette, but she’s a little bit more mentally stable, a little less whiny, and a little more fully fledged as a character (in my opinion).
Dante—the one person she can touch—is the epitome of tall dark and brooding. He has all the essential perfect traits of your favorite YA love interests, but he’s dynamic, relateable. The mystery of his past draws you in and is revealed slowly but feels natural to the story. The suspense and intrigue around him builds as his secrets begin to come to light. It’s drawn out deliciously, but never to the point where it becomes overwrought or annoying.
But he has a personality outside of his brooding secretive side. A softness, humor, and a genuineness that lends an air of realism and unpredictability to his character.
And he and Alessa together absolutely wreck me. I’m obsessed.
Though not directly stated in the text, Emily Thiede has stated that Alessa has ADHD. The representation is #ownvoices and absolutely incredible. The ableism she faces broke my heart, especially when it came from the people who were supposed to love and protect her unconditionally. The way that she internalized and grappled with that ableism she’s been shown from those who claim to love her hit so hard in a way that both destroyed me and made me feel seen. And when Alessa chose to value herself as she is and trust herself and love herself… I nearly cried, it was so powerful.
This book was incredible, unique, powerful, angsty, amazing, swoonworthy and a bit steamy. I am obsessed, I tell you, and I cannot recommend this enough.
Age Rating: 15+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
ARC acquired at YALLWest.
Seriously. This book was amazing. I read the whole thing in under 48 hours, and I am chomping at the bit for book 2. The worst part of ARCs will always be having to wait extra long for the sequels. I honestly don’t know how I’m going to do it.
Thrice married, thrice widowed, 18 year old Alessa is the only one with the power to save the world from the impending apocolypse—but she can’t use those powers when she kills every person she touches.
THE ANGST IN THIS BOOK. Immaculate.
A heroine who’s desperate for affection, but whose touch brings excruciating pain and death to anyone she so much as brushes her finger against—until she meets him. Think Juliette from Shatter Me type trope. Alessa has all the angsty longing of Juliette, but she’s a little bit more mentally stable, a little less whiny, and a little more fully fledged as a character (in my opinion).
Dante—the one person she can touch—is the epitome of tall dark and brooding. He has all the essential perfect traits of your favorite YA love interests, but he’s dynamic, relateable. The mystery of his past draws you in and is revealed slowly but feels natural to the story. The suspense and intrigue around him builds as his secrets begin to come to light. It’s drawn out deliciously, but never to the point where it becomes overwrought or annoying.
But he has a personality outside of his brooding secretive side. A softness, humor, and a genuineness that lends an air of realism and unpredictability to his character.
And he and Alessa together absolutely wreck me. I’m obsessed.
Though not directly stated in the text, Emily Thiede has stated that Alessa has ADHD. The representation is #ownvoices and absolutely incredible. The ableism she faces broke my heart, especially when it came from the people who were supposed to love and protect her unconditionally. The way that she internalized and grappled with that ableism she’s been shown from those who claim to love her hit so hard in a way that both destroyed me and made me feel seen. And when Alessa chose to value herself as she is and trust herself and love herself… I nearly cried, it was so powerful.
This book was incredible, unique, powerful, angsty, amazing, swoonworthy and a bit steamy. I am obsessed, I tell you, and I cannot recommend this enough.