The writing was beautiful but the plot and the characters were kind of meh I found myself kind of skimming the last two or three chapters. The relationship between Marie and Odile felt very surface level as well. Again I really enjoyed the authors prose though and parts of the story were very entertaining but I just kept feeling like it was something with great potential that never really managed to hit the mark.

I was very lucky to receive this book as a eARC in exchange for a honest review.

First of all thanks so much to Jenn for sharing this with me. When I say I was obsessed and feral over this book I mean I was literally curled up in a ball reading it unable to stop. Vicious Miscreations was such an engaging story of a journey of disaster gays. If you like Misfits, Arcane and things like freaky cool plants that eat people, actually scary villains and stakes that feel desperate and nail biting. Then I think you will love Vicious Miscreations as much as I did.

All of the characters have their very distinct voices that somehow come together to really give the book its found family vibes…well after a lot of suspicion and disaster first of course haha iykyk.

The world building and magic applications in the book were really cool and refreshing. I haven’t seen something exactly like it before. It felt like a real breathing world with rules and limitations and wonder (and a lot of danger ofc)

Again highly recommend this book for lovers of fantasy, plant horror, brutal stakes and lovable characters.