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A review by louandlife
Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy by Amerie
3.0
3.7 Stars
Goodreads is cruel because I was in the middle of writing my review when I accidentally pressed a button and it went back to the last page. I am so mad, I had spent about 2 hours writing it up, and I wasn't even finished. So this review will be a lot shorter. That rating is the average of all the stories.
I did think that this book was overhyped, because of who the authors were, and the popular booktubers. It did feel like a money grab in the beginning of the anthology when I disliked some of the short stories, but I don't mind this book now. I did think that some of the booktubers contributions were unnecessary, but I did enjoy some of them. I think I'm going to do a ranking system of the best 8 stories in this anthology, and leave it at that.
My favourites were: (all of these were 5/5 or 4/5 Stars)
You, You, It's All About You by Adam Silvera
The Sea Witch by Marissa Meyer
Death Knell by Victoria Schwab
Julian Breaks Every Rule by Andrew Smith
Gwen And Art And Lance by Soman Chainani
Shirley and Jim by Susan Dennard
Marigold by Samantha Shannon
Beautiful Venom by Cindy Pon
The rest of the stories, I didn't enjoy as much and were either 2/5 or 3/5 Stars.
I wouldn't recommend this anthology unless you were a fan of these popular authors.
Goodreads is cruel because I was in the middle of writing my review when I accidentally pressed a button and it went back to the last page. I am so mad, I had spent about 2 hours writing it up, and I wasn't even finished. So this review will be a lot shorter. That rating is the average of all the stories.
I did think that this book was overhyped, because of who the authors were, and the popular booktubers. It did feel like a money grab in the beginning of the anthology when I disliked some of the short stories, but I don't mind this book now. I did think that some of the booktubers contributions were unnecessary, but I did enjoy some of them. I think I'm going to do a ranking system of the best 8 stories in this anthology, and leave it at that.
My favourites were: (all of these were 5/5 or 4/5 Stars)
You, You, It's All About You by Adam Silvera
The Sea Witch by Marissa Meyer
Death Knell by Victoria Schwab
Julian Breaks Every Rule by Andrew Smith
Gwen And Art And Lance by Soman Chainani
Shirley and Jim by Susan Dennard
Marigold by Samantha Shannon
Beautiful Venom by Cindy Pon
The rest of the stories, I didn't enjoy as much and were either 2/5 or 3/5 Stars.
I wouldn't recommend this anthology unless you were a fan of these popular authors.