Macmillan USA Vicious

Great gift for the readers

The book comes in dirty and i even got a replacement and it came in the same condition. I dont really recommend buying it unless u don't mind a shabby book

Cool concept and enjoyable read

La trama te mantiene preguntandote muchas cosas y te deja sintiendo que ya no sabes que es malo y que es bueno. Lo ame. Llego antes y pude leerlo en un fin de semana

The book wasn’t in the best condition it looks kinda used a little but thankfully without spots or ruined. I still haven’t read it yet so I’m not recommending anything

Loved the way that there were no real good or bad guys in this story.

Depois de ter uma relação de amor e desgosto com a série Tons de Magia da mesma autora, realmente considerei me manter longe dos livros dela. Mas foi esse, Vicious, que quis primeiro e não conseguiria aguentar a curiosidade sobre ele. Muitas pessoas em quem confio o recomendaram loucamente. Alguma coisa tinha que ter aqui.É difícil classificar este livro. Ele tem ficção científica, tem muito dos quadrinhos de super heróis, mas também é bastante realista e se passa hoje em dia, com protagonistas adultos e personalidades complexas. Ele fala sobre vilões, mas fala mais sobre humanos, sobre crenças, sobre limites e ambição. Tem um tom mais sério, mas ainda assim consegue ser divertido. Não tem muita ação, mas são tantas peças interessantes se montando em uma narrativa fora de ordem cronológica, que é muito fácil ficar viciado na leitura. É um livro muito único e excelente.Victor Vale me conquistou logo de cara, confesso, desde sua primeira cena no livro. Ele está longe de ser uma boa pessoa, e talvez essa seja sua melhor característica, mas é extremamente carismático e seus "companheiros" e ele acabaram se tornando uma das minhas equipes favoritas. Adoro a Sydney e espero que ela apareça no próximo livro. Do outro lado, Eli é realmente um dos personagens mais complexos que já encontrei, mas fez total sentido desde o começo. Sua loucura (é assim que vejo, não tem jeito) me assustou muito, mas também fiquei impressionada com o jeito da autora de assumir o personagem e suas atitudes, ainda deixando muito nas entrelinhas.Outra coisa excelente é a relação do Victor com o Eli, principalmente na época da faculdade. Essa questão de amizade e rivalidade, inveja e admiração, que é tão complexa e difícil de definir, mas que a autora conseguiu acertar em cheio.Sobre o enredo, não é tão movimentado e cheio de ação como um livro "de super herói" costuma prometer, mas definitivamente foi muito bem feito e melhor ainda por isso. O jeito da autora de contar essa história, intercalando linhas do tempo sem muita ordem, mas com bastante lógica, foi o ponto alto para mim. Tudo apareceu na hora exata, sem me fazer ficar torcendo para voltar para outra hora ou até para outro ponto de vista.Sinceramente, é um livro completo e perfeito. Claro que fico feliz de ter uma "continuação", mas também estaria bem satisfeita com esse final. Ainda bem que meu incômodo com os outros livros dela não me impediu de dar uma chance para esse livro incrível!

I was so afraid it wasn’t going to live up to its hype but I am so freaking glad it did. I am in no way saying that this isn’t a book without it’s problems but for me, for now, this was an absolutely great read.I have to admit that I liked Vicious better than the two books by V. E. Schwab from the Darker Shade series. I think it’s more because of the characters, they are more fleshed out despite it being a shorter read. I could see more of Eli and Victor as well as Serena, Sydney and Mitch than I could see the characters from the Darker Shade series. They were three dimensional in the best way possible and I think that’s what made this book a delightfully dark read.I think this is one of those books where everyone is problematic and you know it but you find ways to be fond of them and become attached to them anyway. It might say a lot about us but the fact remains that these characters are ridiculously easy to be attached to. Except for Eli who has his own set of morals that I don’t think I’ll ever agree with.Take Victor Vale, if you take into account every action he takes in the book, you would see a very clear-headed villain. A person who is aware of what he is doing and doing it anyway. I admit that I wasn’t really sold on Victor in the beginning but I think somewhere along the way, this character really burrowed its way into my heart. We start the book with Victor and Eli being friends and trying to decide on their theses. How that escalates into a horrifying calamity is something you have to read to find out.Eli Cardale, when I read the beginning chapters, I was kinda worried about his changing personalities and his mysterious appearance but I was too focused on Victor’s jealous tendencies and weird fixation to see Eli’s facade. He is a man of faith, this is dubious in nature for me at least but still, he prays, he has the whole God gives for a reason and the concept of hell etched into his bones. All of that sounds like a normal person but as you read on, you see the cracks, the yawning in between the face he wears in public and the one he lets slip in front of Victor.These two have one of the most unhealthy friendship/ attachment I have seen in a while and that includes the whole Darkling/Alina thing, okay?It all starts with ambitions and curiosity, Victor and Eli want to find what makes an EO, an ExtraOrdinary person. They find out and they start to think of creating EOs themselves. Of course, they volunteer to experiment on themselves because who doesn’t want a super power? Any super power? It goes about as well as it could have. In their search for super powers, they discover that something fundamentally human is lost in the process and each of them deal with it in their own way.The story flutters from the past (where Victor and Eli were still students in university) and the present (where they want to just finish each other off), Schwab wrote this perfectly. The snippets from the past were just enough to give me a hint of what might be happening in the present and why.Mind you, these two are not the only morally grey characters in the book and my absolute favourite is Sydney Clarke, followed by Mitch Turner. They both deserve so much more than the life they are dealt with so far. There’s Sydney, a thirteen year old girl who has the power to raise the dead, who was betrayed by her own sister Serena. Serena Clarke also manages to be a wonderfully intriguing character, yes, she’s not the best person on earth but nor is she the worst. She’s still human despite evidence suggesting otherwise. Mitch Turner, ugh, I just want to give that man some chocolate milk and let him be happy.I absolutely loved the weird as hell connection between Victor, Mitch, Sydney and Dol. It was weird but it warmed me anyway and I am hoping to have more fun with this weird as hell family in the next book.Overall this book is an absolute delight, not for the faint hearted or for the people who are looking for morals in a book. This is not that book, it has brilliant and perfectly insane characters, grey morals, weird friendships and just as weird hateships (yes, I am calling it that. It’s a mess between Victor and Eli, okay? I am not sure what else to call it.) I gave it a 4.5 stars because it totally deserves it and only took away the .5 stars because it dragged in the middle, just a bit.