Victoria Schwab Books
Victoria Schwab is an American author known for her fantasy and science fiction novels. She writes both young adult and adult fiction, often under the name V.
Known for: Our Dark Duet, The Archived, The Near Witch, This Savage Song
Books by Victoria Schwab
Our Dark Duet
What if the monsters destroying your city were not the only threat, but mirrors of the violence, grief, and hatred living inside human hearts? In Our Dark Duet, Victoria Schwab brings the Monsters of ...
The Archived
What if every human life could be shelved, preserved, and revisited like a book? In The Archived, Victoria Schwab builds a chillingly original fantasy around that idea, imagining a hidden institution ...
The Near Witch
Some stories begin as warnings. Others become prisons. In The Near Witch, Victoria Schwab turns a village legend into a haunting, lyrical fantasy about fear, belonging, and the danger of mistaking rum...
This Savage Song
What if violence did not end with its victims, but took physical form and continued walking the streets? In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab imagines exactly that kind of world: Verity, a divided cit...
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Kate Harker and Chosen Identity
Reinvention can look powerful from the outside while hiding deep unresolved pain within. When Our Dark Duet begins, Kate Harker is far from Verity, operating in Prosperity as a capable and feared monster hunter. She has built herself into a weapon: efficient, detached, and committed to a mission tha...
From Our Dark Duet
August Flynn and Burdened Leadership
Power becomes dangerous when conscience is treated as weakness, yet conscience without action can collapse under pressure. August Flynn stands at the center of this tension. Back in Verity, he has assumed greater responsibility within the Flynn Task Force, helping maintain order in a city where viol...
From Our Dark Duet
Verity and the Cost of Violence
A city is shaped not only by laws and leaders, but by the emotional habits of the people living inside it. Verity is one of Schwab’s most striking creations because it externalizes a terrifying idea: violence has consequences that do not end when the act is over. In this world, monstrous beings are ...
From Our Dark Duet
The Hollow Men and Manufactured Fear
The most dangerous threats are often the ones that exploit what people already feel. One of the novel’s central developments is the emergence of a new kind of monster: the Hollow Men. Unlike the more familiar creatures born from direct acts of violence, these beings spread emptiness, despair, and em...
From Our Dark Duet
Kate and August Reunite Changed
Reunions are most revealing when they expose how much growth has a cost. When Kate and August meet again, they are no longer the wary, emotionally unformed teenagers from This Savage Song. Distance, grief, and responsibility have altered them both. Kate has become sharper, more guarded, and more wil...
From Our Dark Duet
Monsters Mirror Human Moral Failure
The novel’s darkest truth is that monstrosity is not the opposite of humanity; it may be one of its products. Throughout Our Dark Duet, Schwab dismantles any comforting idea that evil belongs neatly to supernatural beings while innocence belongs to people. The monsters in Verity are born from human ...
From Our Dark Duet
About Victoria Schwab
Victoria Schwab is an American author known for her fantasy and science fiction novels. She writes both young adult and adult fiction, often under the name V.E. Schwab. Her works include acclaimed titles such as 'Vicious', 'A Darker Shade of Magic', and 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue'.
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Victoria Schwab is an American author known for her fantasy and science fiction novels. She writes both young adult and adult fiction, often under the name V.
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