Review: Great introduction for Vicious
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
I read this short story as a little warm up (heehee) before I dove into Vicious, and I’m glad I did. This is a great introduction to the way that people in this world develop their supernatural abilities (by having some sort of near-death experience and then coming back). It shows how these special powers — though cool-sounding at first — can actually be much more of a burden for the wielder. By the time I was finished with Warm Up, I was really ready to dig into the novel. (I was kind of expecting the main character in this short story to show up at some point in the book, but he never did. On that note then, I kind of wish that Schwab had written a couple more short stories like this, just so we can get a larger sense of it all beyond Victor, etc.)NOTE: THIS IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE ONLINE AT TOR.COM!!