Welcome to the first ever Superweek at Goldilox and the Three
Weres, an entire week devoted to superheroes, supervillains, and
superpowers! As part of our celebration of all things super, we're
highlighting some of our favorite Super Reads that we've featured on the
blog.
Vicious is not your normal superhero story. In fact, it's more of a antihero story. It really explores the question about what
kind of person you would become if you suddenly develop special abilities. It tells the tale of how two friends, Victor and Eli, become enemies after they develop
superhero powers through a pursuit
of science and knowledge. The book
opens ten years after these experiments and follows a non-linear timeline through flashbacks that are so perfectly done that we can see how their pursuit of power progresses until they are no longer friends but archnemeses attempting to kill one another.
The characters are so complexly fantastic and messed up that you'll end up loving and hating them at the same time. In my mind, Victor and Eli
are like Tony Stark and Bruce Banner from The Avengers but if
they had had a falling out. They are the kind of friends that are so similar yet
opposite in so many ways. They had me hooked from the first page. The truly great
thing about this novel is that it makes you think. It makes you wonder
about special abilities and what lengths humans would go to become
ExtraOrdinary. There's a reason it's one of my favorite books of all-time.
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Vicious was such an amazing read, it has stuck with me since I read it a couple years back and it remains a favorite of mine. Shades of grey characters are really the best ones to read about: they're so compelling!!
ReplyDeleteYES! They are so wonderfully messed up that you can't help but love them!
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