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Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
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I did it !! Godness.
I really was super intrigued by the title and the synopsis alone. A rom-com on the Villain team? A mystery? Sunshine × Grumpy romance? Count me in!!
I have, however learnt now to judge a book more by its cover than by its synopsis, I feel like, which is a bummer. Cause like, I feel like I should've known. :(
If you asked me tomorrow what happens in this book, I wouldn't be able tell you a thing. The actually important scenes felt like they were broken up by the main chacacters randomly noticing "how attractive X is when they do Y" etc, and I lost focus every time and probably missed a lot of lore elements or plot foreshadowings. Oops.
Right after the prologue (where Evie already is absolutely *thirsting* for The Villain) there is a 5-month time skip that essentially skips any chance for a slow burn this book tries to tell you it is. And then nothing happens for 300 pages. At the end I'm still unsure if we ever moved past the prologue at all. Nothing has changed. NOTHING. 😭 (the biggest irony of this is that the entire thing also ends on a cliffhanger to build up for the sequel lol)
I hadn't looked up the tiktoks this story was based on either before reading, but after I saw a couple of them I feel like I understand why the book is like it is lol. It reads like a bunch of those half-awkward instagram 1D imagines loosely stringed together to a 330 page book. Basically fanfiction for the Villain×Assistant tiktok series so I bet her fans over there are loving this one. Going in blind, it's not that great lol.
If you're looking for a "Gru × His Daughters"- kind of wholesome villain × civilian realtionship building (IN THEIR CASE, FAMILY, OF COURSE), look somewhere else! 😅
I really was super intrigued by the title and the synopsis alone. A rom-com on the Villain team? A mystery? Sunshine × Grumpy romance? Count me in!!
I have, however learnt now to judge a book more by its cover than by its synopsis, I feel like, which is a bummer. Cause like, I feel like I should've known. :(
If you asked me tomorrow what happens in this book, I wouldn't be able tell you a thing. The actually important scenes felt like they were broken up by the main chacacters randomly noticing "how attractive X is when they do Y" etc, and I lost focus every time and probably missed a lot of lore elements or plot foreshadowings. Oops.
Right after the prologue (where Evie already is absolutely *thirsting* for The Villain) there is a 5-month time skip that essentially skips any chance for a slow burn this book tries to tell you it is. And then nothing happens for 300 pages. At the end I'm still unsure if we ever moved past the prologue at all. Nothing has changed. NOTHING. 😭 (the biggest irony of this is that the entire thing also ends on a cliffhanger to build up for the sequel lol)
I hadn't looked up the tiktoks this story was based on either before reading, but after I saw a couple of them I feel like I understand why the book is like it is lol. It reads like a bunch of those half-awkward instagram 1D imagines loosely stringed together to a 330 page book. Basically fanfiction for the Villain×Assistant tiktok series so I bet her fans over there are loving this one. Going in blind, it's not that great lol.
If you're looking for a "Gru × His Daughters"- kind of wholesome villain × civilian realtionship building (IN THEIR CASE, FAMILY, OF COURSE), look somewhere else! 😅
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Reading Progress
October 17, 2023
– Shelved
October 17, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
November 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
physical-tbr
November 30, 2023
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Started Reading
December 1, 2023
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4.97%
"It's so weird to read this bcs it has such a rom-com vibe and I feel it's gonna be hard to keep thinking of "The Villain" as a bad guy going forward but more of a Robin Hood-kinda guy if anything... 🤔
Also please for the love of god let this guy have a name ?? 😭😭 I don't think I can make it through another book where the character is only referred to as their TITLE 😭💀"
page
17
Also please for the love of god let this guy have a name ?? 😭😭 I don't think I can make it through another book where the character is only referred to as their TITLE 😭💀"
December 2, 2023
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9.94%
"So apparently this book is basically an extension of an ongoing skit/"series" on tiktok by the author about "what it'd be like if I worked as the villain's assistant", hence the lack of name for the villain and the silly scenarios. Definitely worth to consider/look up before going into this bcs it doesn't really work on its own if you go in blind... ://"
page
34
December 3, 2023
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16.96%
"HE HAS A CANON, WRITTEN-OUT NAME. THANK GOD.
Also, the way the villain's POV is written reminds me of 'The Way of the Househusband' with the ridiculous levels of simping he's up to LOL."
page
58
Also, the way the villain's POV is written reminds me of 'The Way of the Househusband' with the ridiculous levels of simping he's up to LOL."
December 5, 2023
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23.68%
"WAIT, HE HAS NEVER SAID HIS NAME OUT LOUD FOR HER TO HEAR ?? AND SHE'S HIS PERSONAL ASSISTANT ?? 😭 BRO
Also, I am clearly way to ace for this lol I do not understand"
page
81
Also, I am clearly way to ace for this lol I do not understand"
December 5, 2023
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29.53%
"I accidentally imagined the villain as Plankton from Spongebob bcs his POVs are so SILLY and now I can't unsee it 😭😭😭 I bet Plankton and Spongebob (in the princess fit) would pull this story off FLAWLESSLY"
page
101
December 8, 2023
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38.3%
"I get that she wants to protect her friends, but the fact that she can't even take a moment to explain and instead takes it personally and storms out ??? SIS, ISTG DO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS MAKES YOU LOOK GUILTY AF THIS IS SO UNNECESSARYYYY 😭😭
if I have to read more than one (1) chapter of her sulking over the villain not trusting her when she gave him absolutely zero context I will ✨️ s c r e a m ✨️"
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131
if I have to read more than one (1) chapter of her sulking over the villain not trusting her when she gave him absolutely zero context I will ✨️ s c r e a m ✨️"
December 14, 2023
–
66.08%
"Reading this is like taking one of those flat escalators in the airport, and having people try to high-five you along the way and miss every time.
Are you going somewhere? Probably.
Is it any different from where you started? Maybe a little bit.
And then, as you try to focus on the end goal, trying to keep track of the luggage and everything, hands keep smacking you in the face and you lose focus again.
I'm sad."
page
226
Are you going somewhere? Probably.
Is it any different from where you started? Maybe a little bit.
And then, as you try to focus on the end goal, trying to keep track of the luggage and everything, hands keep smacking you in the face and you lose focus again.
I'm sad."
December 19, 2023
–
87.72%
"I found a typo where a kinda important-to-the-current-situation-character apparently had a different name in the first draft and I was VERY confused for a solid minute where this other character came from jsjsjsjs"
page
300
December 19, 2023
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Finished Reading
February 5, 2024
– Shelved as:
bought-new
