I feel like "The Horrible Plan of Horace Pickle" got this concept right in book form but mostly because they made it superheroes and played it with no romance.
Hey. Hope you are good. Just to say that whenever I watch your new video it's always you ranting for 3-4 hours about a book badly. I mean you never seem to like a book.
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Dain didn’t find out that she killed the prince’s friend, she harmed him and punished her for that by making her stab her own hand. She killed him after.
I was abeka k-12, yes you heard that right. I did not have an education. I've spent my 20's re-educating myself. And the best revenge is that I married a black immigrant from Africa. He will get his green card soon. And my mom still believes his people are depraved and in need of the gospel. About white people invading Africa she said "well someone had to do it" 🫢🫢😤😤
Tell me why I was casually watching this video and immediately went “David’s gonna turn out to be faking it and it will be revealed that he’s a serial killer too”
I am so grateful for this review! Looking at booktok I thought I was the problem. I just did not vibe with this book. I had to constantly google things I did not understand.
25:24 minutes in, and already I have three ideas that (I believe) would've made "Assistant to the Villain" much better: 1) Make the FMC a marketing assistant or PR maven; she believes that the best way to conquer the kingdom is to appeal to the citizens, not kill them. (She would also like to be able to go about her day without having to slip on an innocent person's set of entrails.) Cue PR training for the villain and helping him understand that, no, we do not kill people to get them to do what they want. In fact, swapping indiscriminate killings for a long-term economic plan that lifts up the poor may be the best way to do a coup. Accidental redemption arc optional. 2) Make Trystan the son of the real villain. So the villain was an old guy who bore a decades-long grudge against the King, but he died and his son took up the mantle while letting the kingdom think his father had actually survived the last battle. He employs actors to play the part of the Villain(TM) who wears masks - supposedly to cover his battle scars - while he does the behind-the-scenes stuff. It's a good idea but it can hamper him because he has to juggle co-ordinating another coup attempt while answering questions from the actors about his father so they can properly portray the pain of the Villain role. (Which baffles Trystan because for him and his father, murder was their equivalent of a father-son fishing trip, and he sees nothing dysfunctional about that. Because he's a VILLAIN.) Plus there's that extra layer of Trystan living in his father's shadow. 3) Set it in modern day. It's so clear that the author of this (and Rebecca Yarros of Fourth Wing fame) are much more comfortable writing modern day, but they set their books in a medieval environment because medieval = fantasy. But they do that while relying on modern dynamics. It makes the reading experience so awkward, and I genuinely believe that these books would work better if they were in a fantasy world which had mobile phones and emails. But then that would require worldbuilding, and "Assistant to the Villain" is not interested in that.
The unfortunate thing about the duet that follows this novella is that there is very little plot. Yes, it was a fantastic time, but it's not the best option if you are looking for something deeper (no pun intended). I also love the name Manson for the character; it seems to suit him really well.
I know Harley from our Wattpad days (we don’t speak of it… never…) and when I deleted Twitter, we lost touch, but Harley is SO AMAZING and genuinely loved and cares about writing and safe kink. I don’t trust other books with such heavy topics, but I know they’ll do it properly so I have no worries going into any of their books.
