"Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human." 
 Vicious is the story of Eli and Victor, two brilliant but arrogant young men, who make a magnificent discovery during their senior year in college: under the right circumstances people can potentially develop supernatural powers. After an experiment goes terribly wrong, they drift apart, swearing revenge on each other. 
 This book is brilliant. There is no good vs evil, no heroes or traditional bad-guys. Victor and Eli, as well as the people surrounding them, are deeply troubled and complicated characters. They are morally compromised, their ego only surpassed by their intelligence. It can be argued that this is a story about cunning villains, about self- righteous murderers and sadists. But it is also a story about human ambition and envy, about friendship and betrayal. Those characters are far from perfect; they are made entirely of flaws and that is exactly what makes them human, notwithstanding their supernatural abilities. After all, how far is too far? And who can be the judge of that?