lovely vicious review:
Fire meets ice. Love meets hate.
Seventeen-year-old Isis Blake hasn't fallen in love in three years, nine weeks, and five days, and after what happened last time, she intends to keep it that way. Since then she’s lost eighty-five pounds, gotten four streaks of purple in her hair, and moved to the Buttcrack-of-Nowhere Ohio to help her mom escape a bad relationship.
All the girls in her new school want one thing – Jack Hunter, the Ice Prince of East Summit High. Hot as an Armani ad, smart enough to get into Yale, and colder than the Arctic, Jack Hunter’s never gone out with anyone. Sure, people have seen him downtown with beautiful women, but he’s never given high school girls the time of day. Until Isis punches him in the face.
Jack’s met his match. Suddenly everything is a game.
The goal: Make the other beg for mercy.
The game board: East Summit High.
The reward: Something neither of them expected.
“And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. But he missed one petal. And she guards it with a tiger's ferocity.”
I was expecting Lovely Vicious to be one of "those" books. You know, the mindless, bland ones where you have a "beautiful, but broken" girl, who gets swept up in a whirlwind romance with a "broken" boy? Although it does technically belong in the aforementioned category, it was pleasantly NOT boring.
Isis
Our heroine is a 17-year-old ex-"fat girl", who's trying to forget her traumatic past and leave it behind. However, she's not your usual emotionally unstable, wishy-washy heroine. She's witty and funny, and does all she can from preventing people from seeing the real her by making a show of acting like she's got an overabundance of self-esteem. She's incredibly strong, managing to deal with her messed-up life as well as the aftermath of her mother's abusive relationship. Her dialogue was hilariously charming, although quite cringe-worthy at times.
Jack
Jack is one of those cliched "cold-and-detached-but-insanely-gorgeous-dudes-who-secretly-have-a-heart-of-gold". He's brash, he's rude, and appears to have little or no regard for anyone he knows. In addition to being dark and brooding, he also has a "mysterious past" (you see what I meant when I said he was a cliched character?) and is linked to this girl called Sophia, whom no one is willing to tell Isis about. I didn't feel much sympathy for Jack, mostly due to the fact that he was downright rude to Isis and showed few signs of repentance. I suppose some people would find that charming, though.
Overall, Lovely Vicious was a fast-paced and incredibly addictive book, although by no means realistic (for instance, there was that scene where the principal stuck up pictures of one of his students' younger years in the corridor walls. Really, now?). There was (thankfully) no insta-love, and I found myself thoroughly enjoying Isis and Jack's "war" and the ways they tried to destroy each other, as well as the mystery surrounding Jack, against my will.
Oh, but that cliffhanger. It left me screaming. I will definitely be anticipating the sequel to Lovely Vicious, and any other book that Sara Wolf writes.
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