A review by wisteriamoon
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy by Amerie

5.0

This was the first anthology on my TBR, back before I even knew what an anthology was, and I'm so glad that I finally got around to reading it. Nothing says "fall" to me quite like a cozy collection of short stories about villains. And I loved the study of villainy in this book, and how every author interpreted it so differently. There were shocking twists and stories of tragedy, and tales that unsettled me, and ones that were empowering, with everything in between. I loved diving deep into villainy and all of its aspects, how it is handled in media. I wished that there had been a bit more diversity, with maybe a few more disabled authors talking about how that relates to villainy in literature and how we can rise above stereotypes, and there were a few stories that didn't quite hit for me, but overall, this is an anthology full of amazing stories from some of my favorite authors-Marissa Meyer, Soman Chainani and Victoria Schwab to name a few-and truly was fascinating and tragic and beautiful.