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𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿: Hannah Nicole Maehrer✍🏻 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: 368📖

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️

Characters: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Pacing: 5/5
World building: 4/5
Quotes: 10/5

“Hello, Evil Overlord.”
“Hello, Little Tornado.”

🐸 Villainous MMC
✨ Frog Princes
🐸 Questionable use of puff pastries
✨ She rescues him
🐸 Mischievous little sister
✨Method acting kidnappers
🐸 Obscene amount of pining
✨I Love you, but I can’t have you

I honestly can’t find a single flaw in this book—other than the fact that it ended, and now I have to wait until who-knows-when for the third one.

This entire book feels like Evie’s villain origin story, and let me tell you, I am not mad about it. She was fantastic as an assistant, but as an apprentice? She’s a freaking queen. Evie is out here making her own rules, and I’m here for it.

“I. Am. Not. A. Victim.”
“You’re only offended because I speak the truth. Think, Miss Sage—do you honestly believe saving this man is a just choice? A good one?”
“No, you’re right. I suppose… it’s an evil one.”

While The Villain sees Evie’s changes as her being corrupted by his influence, we can see she’s blossoming into the BAMF she was always meant to be. Trystan gives us the usual black-and-white, good-vs-evil shtick, but Evie? She’s here to show us it doesn’t have to be one or the other. By the end, I’m betting this will be the most important lesson The Villain learns from her.

“There’s nothing written in any text, God-created or not, that says we can’t be more than one thing. You’ve been told for a long time that you’re made for destruction, but there’s nothing that says you can’t be more. You can be capable of bad and still do good. You can do good things and still be bad. Nothing is set in stone, and if it helps, I’ll stand by you, no matter who you choose to be.”
“Why?”
“Because I like who you are, not what you’re capable of.”

I seriously love these two and want them to get their (evil) happily ever after. I’m going to need The Villain to stop being such a total fu🍆k nugget and just admit he’s head over heels for her.

P.S. Hannah, you teased me with every moment of tension, and I’m considering this cruel and unusual emotional abuse.

• The entire scene where Evie rescues The Villain? It will live rent-free in my head for the foreseeable future.

• Evie is ‘Evil, but make it  lite,’ and I’m living for it.
• HER BROTHER 😱
• Blade and Becky are going to be the ultimate power couple. Fight me.
• I need Kingsley to get his happily ever after too. 😔
• Lyss is a little terror, and I love her.
• I really hope we get more Malcolm Maverine in the next book.
• I cannot say this enough: Evie is a fucking queen.
• Good Lord, the pining. So. Much. Pining.
• Kingsley brought it again with the one-liners.
• I knew Becky was gonna grow on me, but oh my God, I love her 🥹
• Trystan, you absolute turd nugget. 🤦🏻‍♀️

• “When a parent abandons a child, it always makes me wonder: Was it the parent’s shortcoming or the child’s?” “When a knight betrays his king, it always makes me wonder: Was it the knight, or the king?” SCREAMING.

• I need some talented individual to create fan art of The Villain having a tea party. Immediately.
  **Memo to self: Learn how to draw people**

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