Vicious

A book that's been on my list for so incredibly long it feels like. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was expecting it to be more dark academia because I saw it on a list of DA, but I definitely wouldn't call this dark academia. It's very crucially missing the academic aspect lol. I thought Eli as the antagonist is quite boring because all he's raging on is a God complex and I find that boring. I was expecting to be able to be sympathetic to both sides but I was only sympathetic to Victor. That's why it's not higher rated, because otherwise it's intriguing the whole way through, and I always love when bad people have to navigate having a kid around and actually wanting to keep that kid a little safe too. It's a favorite trope of mine and part of what made me interested right from the beginning.