First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
Got it? Okay let’s go! Here is the quote…
“Victor readjusted the shovels on his shoulder and stepped gingerly over an old, half-sunken grave.”
Do you know this one?
It is an older book by a well known author…
The third book is finally coming out after 8 years of waiting…
Have you guessed?
Yes? No?
Give up?
Here it is!
Vicious
Summary from Goodreads:
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?
In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn’t automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.
I read both this book and the sequel ages ago, and while I remember the overall feel and main storyline, I have forgotten pretty much the rest of the story. I will be rereading both books before October which is when the final book comes out. I remember really enjoying these books, and hope that they will still be just as good when I reread them. I usually love Ms Schwab’s books, but I was disappointed by her last two books. I am really hoping that I won’t be disappointed by this one.
What do you think? Have you heard about this book? Is it on your TBR? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time…
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