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A review by _askthebookbug
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
2.0
Vicious.
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There is nothing Extraordinary about this book. There, I said it. I know I am in the minority here but I can't just get over the feeling of how superbly boring and slow this book was. Vicious is Schwab's well praised work and I was extremely excited to read this but all my expectations fell flat. It's like the book fizzled into nothing. This book about Extraordinary humans simply failed to entice me.
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Eli and Victor are two pre-med students who come up with a plan to make their thesis unique and when Eli chooses the topic of researching about Extraordinary humans, Victor knows he has to get the upper hand in their quest. They come up with a plan to test the research and come out as EOs after coming back from death. They have their own powers and it is then that their friendship turns into something menacing. They turn against each other and Eli makes it his mission to kill all the EOs as he considers them to be an abomination excluding himself.
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The book is split between THEN and NOW, where Victor does most of the narrating. After Eli tries to kill him, Victor finds himself in prison and decides to kill Eli and seek revenge. There are couple of other characters that take some of the attention like the teenager Sydney who teams up with Victor and the big man Mitch who swears loyalty to Victor. And then there's Serena who sides with Eli. This book builds up slowly, gathering all the characters and describing them in detail. What follows is the hunt between Eli and Victor as they slowly circle each other.
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There are couple of things that I did not like about this book. Firstly, it was incredibly slow. It just drags along for half of the book while still describing Eli's character. Secondly, all the built up mystery was just for nothing. It's a simple story being wound up intensely for keeping the readers hooked while few chapters were stretched unnecessarily long. There were couple of interesting points about the book as well. The plot and the details, being one of the positive points. The entire concept of EO was truly impressive. But apart from that, it just didn't impress me much.
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Rating 2.5 / 5.
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There is nothing Extraordinary about this book. There, I said it. I know I am in the minority here but I can't just get over the feeling of how superbly boring and slow this book was. Vicious is Schwab's well praised work and I was extremely excited to read this but all my expectations fell flat. It's like the book fizzled into nothing. This book about Extraordinary humans simply failed to entice me.
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Eli and Victor are two pre-med students who come up with a plan to make their thesis unique and when Eli chooses the topic of researching about Extraordinary humans, Victor knows he has to get the upper hand in their quest. They come up with a plan to test the research and come out as EOs after coming back from death. They have their own powers and it is then that their friendship turns into something menacing. They turn against each other and Eli makes it his mission to kill all the EOs as he considers them to be an abomination excluding himself.
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The book is split between THEN and NOW, where Victor does most of the narrating. After Eli tries to kill him, Victor finds himself in prison and decides to kill Eli and seek revenge. There are couple of other characters that take some of the attention like the teenager Sydney who teams up with Victor and the big man Mitch who swears loyalty to Victor. And then there's Serena who sides with Eli. This book builds up slowly, gathering all the characters and describing them in detail. What follows is the hunt between Eli and Victor as they slowly circle each other.
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There are couple of things that I did not like about this book. Firstly, it was incredibly slow. It just drags along for half of the book while still describing Eli's character. Secondly, all the built up mystery was just for nothing. It's a simple story being wound up intensely for keeping the readers hooked while few chapters were stretched unnecessarily long. There were couple of interesting points about the book as well. The plot and the details, being one of the positive points. The entire concept of EO was truly impressive. But apart from that, it just didn't impress me much.
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Rating 2.5 / 5.