Vicious [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.
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), and 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 arch nemeses 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.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 55 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Audible Studios
- Audible.com Release Date: September 24, 2013
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00F3FOO18
"Sydney, look at me." He rested his hands on the car roof and leaned in. "No one is going to hurt you. Do you know why?" She shook her head, and Victor smiled. "Because I'll hurt them first."
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Victoria Schwab's first endeavour into the world of adult fiction results in a fascinating meditation on life, death, and everything in between. Gloriously dark and morbidly funny, Vicious explores themes of vengeance, jealousy, damnation, redemption and deadly ambition. It's a superhero story like you've never seen it before, one that will make you question hero/villain stereotypes and wonder about the nature of good and evil. What makes a hero a hero? How do you tell the good guy from the monster? And isn't it all just a matter of perspective?
I'd say I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but that would be a lie. It's literally the best book I've read in the past few months, if not years. It's an ambitious project, and yet Schwab totally nailed it. This book will not only entertain you with its thick, dark humor and sharp dialogues, it will change the way you think and feel about certain things and subjects forever. It's an emotionally engaging, highly dramatic and incredibly compelling read - yes - but it's also more than just that. It's intelligent and intellectually stimulating, filled with memorable quotes and spot-on observations. You'll be thinking about it long after you turn the last page.
The construction of the story is masterful in itself. Two timelines; one in the past, when it all began, and one in the present, when it was all about to come to an end.
Vicious was an interesting science fiction story that was driven by very strong characters. I’d read a TON of 5-star raving reviews about this novel, and was honestly a bit let down.
Although I certainly think the writing is top notch and the storytelling is engaging, it didn’t leave me with the “OMG, I must tell everyone I know about how awesome this book is!!!”
But, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good.
What I enjoyed about Vicious was the lead up to a big showdown between Victor and Eli, two college frenemies who turn hardcore nemeses. The story is told in a day by day then hour by hour lead up to when these two men meet again after 10 years and is interspersed with their history and backstory from years past.
The countdown added a lot of suspense and movement to the book. I didn’t necessarily feeling “pulled” through the story as with other books, but I liked the drama of knowing everything was leading up to ONE BIG MOMENT.
Because so many of my blogger friends loved and reviewed this book, I didn’t realize it wasn’t YA for the first 100 pages or so. Then all the f-words tipped me off.
Vicious is a very dark story, but one that hasn’t been told before. Victor and Eli live in what I would say is a contemporary time (they have smartphones and the Internet), and they are experimenting with idea that EO’s (ExtraOrdinaries) live among us.
Victor is the narrator for the first half of the book, and his story is filled with sadness and bitterness. It makes him an even more interesting character though. There is a lack of pretension about him that I really appreciated.
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