“The world resists, when you break its rules.Washington University in St. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.” Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. “But these words people threw around – humans, monsters, heroes, villains – to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. “When no one understands, that’s usually a good sign that you’re wrong.” “Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.” Update: I devoured Villains #2: Vengeful. I can’t wait to devour Villains #2: Vengeful. They’re no cut-and-dry character you can pinpoint that doesn’t have some darkness to them, even if it’s the beginning of that darkness growing within them. The lines between hero and villain are blurred in Vicious, which is what I think makes it work well. “The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for consequence.” And what separates the darker ones from the gray ones. Schwab makes insightful remarks throughout the book on what makes people, well, people. If you like exploring how people tick and what triggers them, this will be a good fantasy-read of that exploration. It’s about heroes – the ones who think they’re doing the hero-ing for a higher purpose, and the ones who realize they’re doing it for their own devices.
This book is about monsters and their creators, who, really, could be monsters themselves. Vicious is almost as good as V.E.Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic series (which is one my favorite fantasy series recently). This retelling of the superhero/villain dynamics was believable and readable. With blood and revenge in mind, he hunts down the EO-hunter Eli. Meanwhile, Victor gets thrown into jail for ten years until he breaks out. Eli also begins hunting down other EOs – hypocritical, since he is one, too. Eli wants Victor dead for being an EO, which he considers to be unnatural. ―That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”Įli and Victor, though, once best friends, are now best enemies.
But it’s not quite what he expected.Įver the one to take advantage of a situation, though, Victor finds ways to use his new abilities, and does so with great success – at least, success in terms of getting him what he wants some of the time. When Victor awakes, he finds his new superpower.
Eli refuses to help, so Victor has someone else do the watching as he tries to kill himself – but not quite. This time, they’re successful – Eli now has superpowers. With some tweaking to their procedure, Eli tries. Victor tries first under Eli’s watch, but nothing happens.
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