The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Vicious
AUTHOR: V.E. Schwab
@veschwab
Publisher: Tor Books @torbooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: September 24, 2013
The Review
The Title/Cover Draw:
- Very striking cover! But the reason I picked this book up is because people raved about the duology.
What I liked:
- The characters are both good and bad at the same time. The timeline jumps around, but not in a confusing way.
What I didn’t like:
- Sometimes there doesn’t seem to be a clear plot and it might not become clear until the next book, maybe?
What kept me reading:
- I felt for these misguided people. They were searching to stop the other because they thought they needed to save the world.
The Characters:
- Sydney was a character I could get behind because she was naive and innocent. Seeing what was happening through her eyes was so interesting.
The Ending:
- Very cliff hangy. I need the second book pronto.
Consider if you like:
- Dark pseudo fantasy stories.
Small Summary:
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn’t automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.
*****
All thoughts and opinions are my own.