Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy is a short story anthology that was curated and edited by the amazing, and so very talented, Ameriie. Seriously, Ameriie is an angel and I'm so thankful that she put this anthology together. I completely believe this collection will appeal to so many readers. I mean, these stories surround villains and their often misunderstood back stories, and then throw in some amazingly talented and popular authors, and then some of the most popular Booktuber...

Official rating is 3.75 out of 5 stars. The author's stories themselves were enjoyable, but overall not as evil as I hoped, though I did appreciate seeing the varied versions of what a "villain" could be. The booktuber contributions were a mixed bag: I enjoyed the ones that were more of a commentary on the story themselves, but even some of those read like a 7th grade book report- and the ones that read like they were from the pages of a teen magazine (with fictional q&as, quizzes etc) just didn...

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Oh, Victoria Schwab is a co-author?*buys book*FULL REVIEW UP NOW!!!So 13 authors collab with booktubers and create villains. The booktuber chooses a theme/challenge and then the author has to write a story accordingly. At the end of each story the booktuber(s) will "review" the story and give background and insight. Let's go one at a time?1(a). The Blood of Imuriv by Renée Ahdieh ⭐️⭐️⭐️Ok, so no idea who this chick is....? Anyway, the writing was pretty good. Did I love the villain? Eh. He enjo...

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The Blood of Imuriv by Renee Ahdieh, prompt from Christine Riccio - I hate to say this bc Renee is my #queen but- M E H- This one definitely had LOADS of potential, but it fell so FLAT and was so anticlimactic - And it was wayyyy to short, seriously it was like 9 pages long, excuuuse me- Soz @ renee, I still love you, we can forget this ever happened 2 stars Jack by Ameriie, prompt from Tina Burke- Surprisingly, this was ~*entertaining*~- Loved the dark twist at the end (bc im a bitter person)...

As with most anthologies a lot of these stories were pretty hit or miss.Full video review: https://youtu.be/T-DtdmcoRcc

i have very mixed feelings about this anthology. i probably expected too much from this? idk, i love villains and anti-heroes especially when they're well-written, when they're charismatic and sassy/petty, morally grey or immoral at all. villains and anti-heroes who are likable af and you love them SO MUCH but at the same time you understand that you're probably not supposed to love them, they're like EVIL or smth (missy/the master from dw is my most recent example tbh). i expected this to have

This features some excellent authors and some excellent stories, but also some really ‘meh’ stories. Each story was based on a prompt created by a Booktuber, who then wrote a short essay about the story. Rating this anthology as whole feels oddgreat others were too specific. Some stories fit the prompt exactly, others were more vague. And it’s hard to rate when they were all so different??There were two issues that remained prominent for the whole book:1. The essays felt joltingEach one ruined a...

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2.5 stars.Listen, the book is literally called Because You Love to Hate Me… because everyone (including me) loves to hate it.The Blood of Imuriv by Renée Ahdieh // ★★☆☆☆Jack by Ameriie // ★★★☆☆Gwen and Art and Lance by Soman Chainani // ★★☆☆☆.5Shirley & Jim by Susan Dennard // ★☆☆☆☆.5The Blessing of Little Wants by Sarah Enni // ★☆☆☆☆The Sea Witch by Marissa Meyer // ★★★★☆Beautiful Venom by Cindy Pon // ★★★★☆Death Knell by Victoria Schwab // ★★★☆☆.5Marigold by Samantha Shannon // ★☆☆☆☆.5You, You...

I was looking forward to this for a long time. Marissa Meyer, Victoria Schwab and Adam Silvera combined in one single book? Heaven on earth.To be fair, I didn't read every single page of this short story collection. I read most short stories (Meyer, Silvera, Schwab, Pon, Dennard, Yoon) but I couldn't bother with the Booktuber's essays.What I did read met all the expectations. The stories were unique and spectacular. My favourite one was Victoria Schwab's. It reminded me of her first novel The Ne...

I just want to voice that I, and I only because this is my opinion alone, did not like the style of this book. I would have rather the authors and the booktubers write one-inclusive story together instead of the “responding” the booktubers did to the author’s story. It wasn’t for me, and that really shows in my ratings.01. The Blood of Impuriv ★☆☆☆☆By: Renée AhdiehFeaturing: Christine RiccioAbout: an ambitious dark lordI don’t feel as if anything actually happened in this story except for bicke...

"Villains take the risks our heroes can’t afford to take and make the choices our heroes are too afraid to make. They live in the Grey, and I, for one, love that sliver of space between light and dark, where things tend to be more interesting, people are more complex, and it’s harder to draw clean lines." I bought Because You Love to Hate Me for a few reasons:1) Marissa Meyer2) Marissa Meyer3) Marissa Meyer4) Antiheroes5) Steph Sinclair and Kat Kennedy from the book blog CuddlebuggeryMeyer's

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This book had some amazing stories but I did love to hate a majority of the stories in this book ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Most of the bad stories weren’t as horrible as the story of ‘Jack’ by Ameriie, it was in a whole new level. Word of advice guys: I was a few pages into this story & it was really boring but I didn’t want to skip it because I thought maybe it would get better towards the end? Future me would very much like to teleport back and smack past me with a preferably large book (say Harry Potter and