Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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), 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.
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Claire North
2014 · 411 pages · 9 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveHarry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August, ' she says. 'I need to send a message.' This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.
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Stephen King
2009 · 1074 pages · 1 review
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N. K. Jemisin
2015 · 498 pages · 55 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN. IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL and long-dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. This description comes from the publisher.
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John Marrs
2017 · 416 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveA simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab and soon you’ll be matched with your perfect partner—the one you’re genetically made for. That’s the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance and love. Now five very different people have received the notification that they’ve been “Matched.” They’re each about to meet their one true love. But “happily ever after” isn’t guaranteed for everyone. Because even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking than others…
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Robin Sloan
2012 · 288 pages · 4 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, but after a few days on the job, Clay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are few, and they never seem to buy anything; instead, they "check out" large, obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. Suspicious, Clay engineers an analysis of the clientele's behavior, seeking help from his variously talented friends, but when they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, they discover the bookstore's secrets extend far beyond its walls.
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Brandon Sanderson
2016 · 447 pages · 8 reviews
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Loved itThis was just such an interesting concept. Again, love the characters that we meet. We have a found family situation, a lot of ambiguity with the morality of our characters, and yeah, it was just absolutely gripping story. I loved it so much.
Loved itI love Vicious. It's one of my favorite books of all time. I did not love the second one in the series, so I'm apprehensive of how I'm going to feel about the third one, so we'll have to see.
MixedAnd I made this realization that like the people I know I read to you the synopsis or like what the pitch was, but in my mind I was mixing up A Darker Shade of Magic and Vicious. I've read both of them. I gave them both four stars. I found them a little bit forgettable, but I understand what other people see in them.
MixedI read Vicious by V.E. Schwab... the first 90% of this book was very boring to me... this was a three-star read for me, unfortunately... I need a good plot... this just did not have that for me until the end.
Loved itI did like Vicious. Not as much as everyone else I think liked Vicious, but I did like it to read.
Loved itthat is vicious by V Schwab this is still probably my favorite V ewab book and I still think it's her best book
Loved itit's pretty good this was definitely a book that I thought she did a really good job with the characters are really well done didn't love it as much as this Savage song but I still really enjoyed my time reading that
Loved itthis has everything I like it has these morally gray main characters kind of villainous main characters it has friends to Rivals it has X-Men like special powers the main character study Neuroscience
Loved itvicious by be wab might be my favorite series of hers because I love an anti-hero it's a very strange dark Sinister story again anti-hero it's great
Loved itI consider Vicious a standalone novel. It did not need to continue; the second book was not good in my opinion.
Loved itReally great story about good versus evil. That's something that I think V.E. Schwab does very well.
Loved itthis is a sequel to vicious and I am a big fan of vicious I loved it I loved the ending
Loved itthis book just put together so many genres that I love I love science I love medicine I love sci-fi I love scary books I love creepy books and this book just kind of put all of those things together and it was beautiful
Loved itit's just such a fascinating book I loved it I got a tattoo because of it
Loved itI really enjoyed this book as like a morally gray like what would you do if kind of book and it's definitely very different. Like the style is very different.
Loved itAnother favorite, which is a little bit surprising to me was "Vicious" by the V.E. Schwab and I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. I love the characters in this story.
Loved itthis is a book that I read back in October on my Kindle and completely fell in love with it I completely fell in love with it there are so many amazing gray characters that were so much fun to read about
Loved itI love this book the characters are so Dynamic and crazy and awesome and like the world is really unique and I love the premise
Loved itThis is an adult story about superheroes and I just love the way that this challenges our stereotypes of what it a villain? What is a hero? What are the morals of having superpowers?
Loved itit's this dark and fascinating story of Revenge and conflict between these two morally ambiguous characters and it's awesome
Loved itVicious was quite popular at the beginning of the year it's just a crazy anti-hero story about two College friends who turn into Nemesis and who have extraordinary powers all the characters are really twisted it reads like a comic book and it was just something that I've never really read in that form before so that's why it was really impressionable on me
