Time for another book review! Today's is Vicious by V.E Schwab (also known as Victoria Schwab) The reason why I picked this particular book is that so far on this blog the only book reviews that we have posted have been contemporary, so on the other end of the spectrum today we have and epic science fiction novel.
Victor and Eli are classmates in college. Best friends with the same ambition and streak of evil inside both of them. For this year's college thesis, Eli has chosen EO's. Extraordinaries. Fairytales. However before long an innocent curiosity has led to a dangerous, and life threatening, quest.
Ten years later Victor has just escaped from prison, and is on a hunt for his old friend (now foe) accompanied by a brawny sidekick with a gift for breaching internet security, and a young girl with a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every supernatural person he can get his hands on, apart from his partner in crime, a enigmatic women with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, and driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the arch-nemeses have set a course from revenge - but who will be left alive at the end?
Admittedly I did take some lines from the blurb of the book, but I was stuck for the right words there.
This book is brilliant. You don't know wether to love or hate the characters. They both do very wrong things, however you can see their course of reasoning. Even if there isn't much reason there. I would highly recommend this. V.E Schwab is a brilliant author- I have read her other adult novel A Darker Shade of Magic, which is a fantasy novel that I loved. Her writing is really unique and I just love it.
Overall rating: 4/5 stars. It was epic.
Au revoir,
Emile x
