Assistant to the Villain

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Paperback, 352 pages

Published Sept. 5, 2023 by Entangled: Red Tower Books, Entangled Publishing, LLC.

ISBN:: 978-1-64937-580-3

(11 reviews)

The charms with these book where its drawbacks for me. I find it wonderfully simple and completely ridiculous. Sometimes i think it becomes a bit too much of the same, but all in all it made me laugh a lot.

5 editions

73pctGeek reviewed Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant and the Villain, #1)

Not as fun as I'd hoped

3 stars

A young woman lacking better opportunities, goes to work for the local villain.

While the writing is fine, and the premise fun, it's not as amusing as I'd hoped. It feels overly long and the romance is clumsy, relying on misunderstandings. The heroine is meant to be feistier, funnier, and more charming than she actually comes across. If the plot's turns are meant to be surprising it failed, all are telegraphed well in advance, and a certain narrative choice causes the world to feel very small.

Ends on a tiny cliff, I'll probably read the sequel.

Teejay reviewed Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

Not for me

2 stars

I couldn’t finish this. I made it about 1/4 through and still felt nothing for the characters and didn’t care what was going to happen next. Kudos to the author for not only writing a book, but a series! Amazing accomplishment but this wasn’t for me.

Jam reviewed Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Assistant to the Villain, #1)

mad that i wasted my time on this

1 star

Content warning spoilers

i should’ve avoided this book as soon as i saw it was described as a “booktok sensation”. alas, i didn’t and that's on me.

a few reasons why i hated this:

writing was cringe
romance was cringe
the nonchalant attitude towards human torture and murder. you’re expecting me to sympathise and align myself with the “villain” just because he treats his love interest kindly, even though he murders and tortures people for fun? no, seriously, i don’t care if the people he murdered and tortured were bad. the fact that he derived joy and satisfaction from doing that is disturbing enough.
the protagonist does not seem to care about the above-mentioned issue. which is another red flag to me.

also, the ending ends on a huge cliffhanger and there’s no proper conclusion to events. i know it’s a series, but it honestly feels like a “part one” rather than a whole book on its own. so unless you’re dedicated to reading the whole series, it’s better not to pick this book up.