Grace (irisroman & evajacks' version) ✧'s Reviews > Assistant to the Villain

4.25 ⭐️

Ahhhh this book was literally sm fun!! 🤭🤭 Bingeable, a romance with tensionn, villain love interest + a fun mystery- i ate this uppp 💜💜🫶🫶

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”

Assistant to the Villain follows our mc, Evie Sage, who is the sole supporter of her family after her father falls ill. After losing her last job, she is desperately searching for another one. And then a chance encounter in the woods leads her to meeting the notorious mastermind feared across the kingdom- known simply as 'the Villain'. He ends up offering her a job as his assistant- but turns out being assistant to the hottest villain in the whole kingdom is a little trickier than it looks...

“She wasn’t light; she was color. Every single one, dancing otherworldly and bright over his unworthy eyes. She was the explosion of the vivid gleams and glows of the world around him, like a constant rainbow, shining not after the rain but during.” ~ 🥹🤭

This book was genuinely so unserious for the majority- but all for the more fun for it. it definitely gets more serious & high stakes at the end but for the majority it reads like a romcom but make it fantasy 🫶🫶

Because of that, it's definitely not for everyone- but it was for me 🤭🤭

Ahhh this was sm i enjoyed about this!! ✨️ Bc the story was more fun and entertaining than high stakes, it was such an easy read & so bingeable. I was always excited to pick it and i was genuinely never bored! 💜💜 There was always something to keep me entertained 🫶🫶

As for the characters, i really enjoyed them!! 🥰🥰 I really connected to our two mcs especially and i LOVED the dual pov omg 🤭😩

➡️ Evie:

i really liked her!! 🥰🥰 She's a super bubbly and fun character, and her personality always kept me entertained! some of her jokes were cringey, but sometimes her inner monologues were so unpurposely funny lmao 🤣

I also feel like we got a lot of development of her character and her villain arc at the end?! 🤭 SLAY QUEEN 👑👑 we stan a morally grey fmc 🫡

➡️ The Villain:

yeppp i really liked him 🤭😏 He just checked all my boxes- I mean, he's literally called the Villain and he's hot??! yes pls 🔥🔥 I loved learning more about him and his pov chapters?! 🤭🤭 i was giggling an embarrassing amount. Ahhh i love him smm 😍😍

The romance tho?! 😏 I was eating it UP 😩🍴 The tension and chemistry was actually so good and the way they both thought about each other?? 🤭🤭🤭 they were so obsessed. and the villain being so protective of evie>>>>>> 🔥🔥 i need more content bc they had me giggling and kicking my feet 🦋🦋

“Of all the foolish, horrific things he'd ever accomplished, falling in love with a woman he so completely didn't deserve made the top of the list.”

There was also a fun little mystery going on in the end and the reveal at the end?? JAW ON THE FLOOR. That was actually so so crazy 🤯🤯🤯 and then if that wasn't enough, then the cliffhanger came and SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE 🫢🫢 genuinely in sm pain rn 😃💔 plus the second one doesn't even have a release date next?! why do i do this to myself 😭😭

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”

There were definitely issues tho. The writing was pretty basic and the worldbuilding? nonexistent. But i think if those things are improved in the sequel, I would be genuinely obsessed.

“Attractive murderers were always good kissers; she was pretty sure she’d heard that expression before.”

“You're not all bad, are you?"

He looked offended. "How dare you.”

Overall, this was smm better than expected!! 🤭🤭💜💜 Definitely pick this up if you're looking for:

✔ Bingeable
✔ Fun mystery subplot
✔ Great romance hehehehe
✔ Villain love interest

I will now be suffering until the sequel comes out 🥲🥲

《 2023 Challenge: Book 139 of 110 》

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Okayy I ate this book UPPP 🤭🤭 literally such a fun read + I lovedd the romance 😩😩💜💜

THAT ENDING THO?! 😃🔫 i am unwell

RTC!