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Jun 14, 2019
John Warner
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Victor and Eli are two self-centered medical students researching how adrenaline and near-death-experiences might combine to create extra-ordinary individuals (EOs). Experimenting on themselves that returning to the living, each with supernatural powers. Eli, returns from his near death experience possessing the ability for self-healing; he regenerates no matter how much he is cut. Victor acquires the ability to alleviate or cause pain in himself or others. Of course, something goes wrong. Victo
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Actual rating : 3.5
I liked the book , and the only point prevented me giving it 4 star was it hadn't anything new. ...more
I liked the book , and the only point prevented me giving it 4 star was it hadn't anything new. ...more
A totally addictive story. It's a bit of a long book, but it doesn't feel like it - I flew through this, eager to find out what would happen next (or what had happened to get us here - brilliant structure).
I did feel like there were some flaws, like the decision Eli & Victor make seems underwritten and far too cavalier/immediate. Plus on occasion, there would be a strange sentence structure or a misused word that would snag my momentum a bit. But overall, this was just entrancing.
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I did feel like there were some flaws, like the decision Eli & Victor make seems underwritten and far too cavalier/immediate. Plus on occasion, there would be a strange sentence structure or a misused word that would snag my momentum a bit. But overall, this was just entrancing.
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Victor and Eli are college roommates, working on their senior thesis projects. Eli has a wild theory -- near death experiences can create ExtraOrdinaries, or people with supernatural abilities. Victor has an even wilder plan -- use themselves as test subjects. At first it looks like things have gone right, but then they very quickly go wrong. Ten years later, Victor is tracking down Eli, determined to make him pay.
Every time I pick up a Victoria/V.E. Schwab book I am blown away by how original i ...more
Every time I pick up a Victoria/V.E. Schwab book I am blown away by how original i ...more
I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did. It was good. Just wasn't great.
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Dec 01, 2020
CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph
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