Vicious follows the story of two best friends turned archnemeses, with a narrative that jumps between the present day and their time in college together ten years prior.

This is due primarily to Schwab’s impressive abilities in character development and storytelling. I found this incredibly hard to put down once I started reading it’s one of those stories where you sit down to read a chapter or two and, before you know it, you’ve read a third of the book. It has been quite a while since I was so quickly pulled into a novel. This was my first experience with Victoria Schwab’s work, and I was completely blown away by her talent. I completed it well over a month ago and I am still constantly thinking about it. I am finding it extremely difficult to come up with the right words to accurately describe just how much I adored this novel. Click here to check out Heather’s review of Vicious! I had an incredibly fun time discussing this book with her, and I absolutely can’t wait to do this again in the future. I read this in a buddy read with Heather from The Sassy Book Geek. 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? 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. 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. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. 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.

Synopsis: Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other.

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