![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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 characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes for example, Victor isn’t a particularly nice man, but he has enough conscience left to know that Eli needs to stopped. When he targets Sydney, a 12-year-old girl who can raise the dead, he gets more trouble than he bargained for. But “villain” Victor is innocent of the charges against him, while “hero” Eli has been killing people whose powers he considers more “unnatural” than his own. Victor went to jail and Eli began working with the cops. ![]() Victor Vale and Eliot Cardale, both brilliant and driven, were friends and college roommates who figured out how to give themselves superpowers. ![]()
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