Assistant to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, 1)

The genre of this book was not my favorite. I did not really like the others style of story telling or the character development . I feel like even she did not know how the book would end.

This was a cheesy slow burn up until the last 1/4 of the book! Now I’m freaking invested in finding out what happens to Trystan! And if Evie becomes a villain!

I looooved this book! The twist and turns of the chaos was so much fun! And man with no spice in the book the tension was still yummy! I can’t wait to read the next one.

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I waffled a lot on the rating I wanted to give this book. While the writing isn't terribly strong, the plot gets reeeally interesting in the final chapters, enough to make me immediately need to pick up the next book in the series. The best part of the book is, by far, the relationships between the characters. The tension between Evie/The Villain is *chefs kiss* and the side characters are humorous without being annoying. I'm desperately hoping the second book cuts down on a lot of the 'lip-quirking, upturned lips, half smile, grinning, lips-pulling' descriptions, because those were so constant that it almost drove me to distraction. I also hope the dialogue tightens up some - The Villain bounces jarringly between overly formal to casual/normal, while Evie says something witty and then immediately ruins it by continuing to word vomit. Even if the writing doesn't get better, I am wildly interested to see how the events of this book shape Evie going forward. There's a lot of potential here!