*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *2018 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION
CATEGORY* *Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now* A
super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions-V. E. Schwab returns
with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious. Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor.
Sydney and Serena Clarke. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Great partnerships-now soured on the vine.
But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death she's gained the control
she always sought-and will use her newfound power to bring the city of Merit to its knees.
She'll do whatever it takes from taking over the mob to collecting her own sidekicks and even
leveraging the two most infamous EOs Victor Vale and Eli Ever in a dangerous game of cat and
mouse. With Marcella's rise new enmities create surprising opportunity-and the stage of Merit
will once again be set for a final terrible reckoning. In Vengeful V.E. Schwab is at the top
of her game with twisty action oddball family pairings and unexpected antiheroes you can't
help but root for. -Washington Post 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
