Vicious is a fantasy novel written by V. E. Schwab and published in the year 2013 with over hundreds of thousands of ratings on GoodReads and an average rating of over 4-stars as of today. This is the story of Victor and Eliot, who are brilliant students who unexpectedly develop supernatural powers. They always had a strange relationship of mutual admiration and mutual dislike. But their real darkness comes out when they become extraordinary humans who go against each other. Driven by the thirst to defeat and the strength to destroy anyone who comes in their way, what will these two friends-turned-archrivals do?