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please note, this review may contain spoilers***
Summed
up in a sentence? "I
wish I'd picked this up sooner!”
SYNOPSIS
Victor
and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant,
lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each
other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in
adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events
reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions,
someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis
moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly
wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison,
determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young
girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile,
Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person
that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with
an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven
by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course
for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?
MY
OPINIONS
This
is my first read from the much-loved author V E Schwab. After
following Victor and Eli, and actually loving them both (not even
sorry), I now know why everyone enjoys her writing so much. The novel
has you hooked from pretty much page one, leaving you constantly
wanting more. I found myself reading this quite quickly, and
completed this within a week on my commutes to work.
I
absolutely adored both Victor and Eli, even though they went from
being inseperable, to wanting to kill eachother. The difference
between them being that Eli will go out of his way to find
super-powered humans to kill, whereas Victor wants to find them to
ally.
The
scenes unfolded quickly, with detail and a storyline that kept me
wanting more. Naturally, when the book finished, I was devastated,
and just wanted more.
MY
RATING
Overall,
I am giving this book an amazing five out of five stars. I am
definitely going to re-read this in the near future, and hopefully
the rest of the novels I read by Schwab will follow suit,
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