Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now
"Fresh, merciless, and, yes, vicious. Wow." --Mira Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Newsflesh Trilogy
"Schwab's characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes... In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab's tale of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom." --
Publishers Weekly, starred review "A fun, morally-flexible revenge tale...
Vicious methodically ratchets up the tension as Victor and Eli circle each other for the inevitable kill." --
Daniel H. Wilson, NYT bestselling author of Robopocalypse "Schwab gathers all the superhero/supervillain tropes and turns them on their sundry heads.... I could not put it down." --
F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series "
Vicious is dark and intricate and daring, twisting back and forth through time and morality and life and death until you can't turn the pages fast enough. I loved it." --
Dan Wells, author of I Am Not a Serial Killer "An epic collision of super-powered nemeses. The writing and storycraft is Schwab's own superpower as this tale leaps off the page in all its dark, four-color comic-book glory." --
Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds "Utterly brilliant. Schwab takes the notion of superhero fiction and bashes it on its head...prepare to be thoroughly entertained." --
Jackie Kessler, coauthor of Black and White "A noirish cross between the X-Men and 'The Count of Monte Cristo.' You won't be able to stop turning the pages." --
Alex Bledsoe, author of The Hum and the Shiver "V.E. Schwab writes with the fiendish ingenuity, sardonic wit, and twisted imagination of a true supervillain." --
Greg Cox, New York Times bestselling author
