Hey guys, so today I'm going to talk about (type about! :'D),
Vicious by V.E. Schwab.
First Impressions.
When I first seen this book being talked about within the book tube community it intrigued me, the story line more than the cover. I mainly seen this first cover all over the place, but little did I know it was only for the hardcover version.
But the only cover I could find was this one, and something about it made me think it was going to be more fantasy and juvenile, and I don't know why, the cover takes nothing away from the story line but in my silly mind these two were somehow intertwined and I wasn't sure what to expect.
NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER LADIES AND GENTLEMAN!
Second Impressions.
I'm part of a book club and have been for the last four years now and I love it, but this month I decided to suggest a book that I already had at home. Sometimes you just need a little bit of pressure in order to start a book, I don't know why that's a fact but it is. But I did begin this book in the beginning of March and finished it pretty quickly.
This book is another book told in many different points of views but the main ones are Victor and Eli. Once college room mates and best friends studying medicine they start to discover EO's (The Extra Ordinaries). They realise that near death experiences can have reverse effects on your body and if you survive these events then whatever you were hoping to have in your final moments there is a good chance that you will obtain it. Eli and Victor both become a little crazed with this idea while in college, but then it all starts to go wrong. When Eli somehow manages to make himself immortal Victor has a rage of jealousy over his friends achievement when it did not go so easily for Victor when he tried first. Victor takes some drastic measures and ends up killing someone in the process of becoming an E.O., so Victor goes to jail.
Eli and Vic will never be friends again, Eli see's E.O.'s as a curse, something unnatural that plague the world and seeing as he is immortal he's going to give his life to stopping them, but Victor think they have as much right to live as anyone and he wants to, actually he needs to stop Eli from killing him so Victor will have to kill him first. Victor is released (he breaks out acutally) of prison with his friend and head to find Victor, picking up a stowaway along the way named Sydney, who is also an E.O.
Victor can give and take away pain.
Eli is immortal.
Sydney can raise the dead.
It all seems a little far-fetched though? Not really, if you think about it the amount of pressure and stress that is put on your body during a near death experience it is immense, the sheer impact it has on both your nervous system and you circulation the impact could leave you brain dead. But, if your body was to work in favor of you living, you need to pick up a survival mode this being the ability to do the one thing that would have saved you in that one moment.
I'm a massive fan of anything Marvel or X-Men or Spider-Man, basically I have a thing for superheroes, but I also love the villains (Loki anyone?) which this book gave me my fill of. they are both villains in their own sense. I could never differentiate between who was right and who was wrong, I know Eli was doing horrid things to people but at some points of the novel I was able to see why he did some of the things, he thought that it was against human nature to come back from the brink of death and the only reason he felt any way superior to them was mainly because he was immortal. But then Victor takes massive steps to become an EO and in the process he loses a piece of himself, that made him different to Eli..
Victor and Eli although they have both done wrong seeing their faults is rather easy but also seeing their good traits is a little easier. Sydney's sister Serena has a distinct ability as well, she can convince people to do whatever she wants, which she uses on Eli in order for him not to kill her and they end up together, although it never seems like it is Eli's choice, he doesn't really like her.
Serena get's the local police department on her and Eli's side so Eli has easier access to people who have had near death experiences and killing them gets easier.
This book jumps quite a bit in time, from their college years when they first discovered how to become EO's up until the present day were they meet again after a long time apart from one another. Although sometimes it was a little bit hard to jump like that, but I think it added a lot of substance to the story and any unanswered questions were usually explained in the next chapter.
Overall, I loved this book. A lot of plot and a lot of character development which is not always vital in fantasy/thriller books. I care about these characters and when it happens I love it. This was my first V.E Schwab book, but I will be soon picking up her YA series because I'm quickly becoming a fan!
Stars? 4. The ending felt a tad too rushed, but it left me in suspense and sometimes that's ok! :'D
Fave Character? It has to be Victor, because he's amazingly villainous.
Least Fave Character? Serena
Quote? 'Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.' WOW.
Favourite moment? I think it's when Victor becomes an EO. Because it showed that all near death experiences end in just well, death. Showing the absolute vulnerability of their characters, desperate to be something more than they are.
So this happened... Yup Victoria Scwab herself favourited my tweet! Thought I'd give it an honorary mention in this post as it's all Schwab related :'D So thank you so much Ms.Schwab for favouriting this tweet because as a Fangirl she made my day! :D
Keep reading lovelies! Micaela ;)
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