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BKLYN BookMatch: YA Fiction w super smart, but emotionally cold/uptight/dark-natured genius types

This list was made for a patron looking for books with super smart but emotionally cold/uptight/dark-natured genius types similar to characters like Victor Vale in Vicious by V. E. Schwab.---------------This list was created by a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library for a reader. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit Bklyn BookMatch here: www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/bookmatch

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White cat
Holly Black.
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When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.

All these things I've done
Gabrielle Zevin.
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In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.

The winner's curse
by Marie Rutkoski.
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An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.

Daughter of deep silence
Carrie Ryan.
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At fourteen, Frances survived a slaughter that claimed the lives of her parents and best friend, Libby, but she took on Libby's identity and wealth while plotting revenge against the powerful Wells family and now, at age eighteen, is ready to destroy them, including her first love, Grey.

The Young Elites
Marie Lu.
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Adelina Amouteru survived the blood fever, a deadly illness that killed many, but left others with strange markings and supernatural powers. Cast out by her family, Adelina joins the secret society of the Young Elites and discovers her own dangerous abilities.

The scorpion rules
Erin Bow.
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The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, befriends an American prince who helps her rebel against the brutal rules governing their existences.

Lock & Mori
Heather Petty.
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In modern-day London, sixteen-year-old Miss James "Mori" Moriarty is looking for an escape from her recent past and spiraling home life when she takes classmate Sherlock Holmes up on his challenge to solve a murder mystery.