🥉 Guys! I want you to join me in awarding this book with a Badge of Honor. 🥉 Please stand up from your seats and give this book a round of applause for earning a place in my All-time favourite reads.  *clap* *clap*

This book reminded me a lot of my all time favourite movie series Unbreakable, starring Bruce wills, James McAvoy and Samuel L. Jackson. If you love that movie series then I am sure you are going to love vicious too.

Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

This book was vile. It trapped me in a viocus cycle and had me running in circles, so much so that when I wasn't reading it, I was constantly thinking about it, and when I was reading it, I wanted it to never end. It's unequivocally the best anti-superhero book I have ever read. 

I have never been a fan of Thesis projects; I have always known in my gut that nothing good can come out of them. And this book has only affirmed my visceral feelings. So let's start a petition togther before some college students set their mind on gaining superpowers by nearly killing themselves.

I am telling you guys, this issue needs our immediate attention!!

Don't believe me?  Okay, keep reading.

One fine morning, Victor and Eliot, fascinated by hard to belief stories about normal people doing abnormal things, decides to explore the idea of EOs (ExtraOrdinaries) for their research project. Eliot discovers that NDE (Near Death Experience) phenomenon was a common in all the stories revolving around EOs, which leads him to deduce that NDE is the source of super human abilities. When Eliot shares his discovery with Victor, he urges him to test his theory. Eliot, a God fearing kid, scruples about playing God but eventually gives in. After convulsing in their death throes several times, both comes out of their NDEs stronger than ever before. However, something goes terribly wrong in the process, creating a rift between Victor and Eliot.

After nearly a decade, when Victor breaks out of prison he learns that Eliot has become a superhero, and he can't take him down without becoming the villain of his story.

Do you see now why we need to stand against the atrocities of Thesis projects? This can happen to anyone, guys. Think about it.

There are no good men in this game.

I loved how you couldn't tell which of the two male leads were on the right path. The ambiguity was really intriguing. And at least for the first quarter of the book, I was unable sperate the good character from the evil one.

Eliot was ambitious with a strong, but questionable, sense of right and wrong, whereas Victor was headstrong and impulsive. They were both flawed but written in a way that i was able to understand their reasons and sympathize with them.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.”

The only thing I didn't like was the ending. It wasn't bad but It could have been better. Also, there wasn't enough use of superpowers throughout the book, but I am hoping second book will make up for the lack.
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After my failed attempts with Monster of Verity duology and The Shades of Magic Universe Series, I had given up hope on Victoria Schwab; I had assumed that I'd always remain deprived from the joy of loving her books, but that was before I readVicious. Now I am a proud member of V. E. Schwab's Fandom.


PS: Thesis is important, kids. Just don't kill yourself for it.