Short stories about the bad guys and gals (review)

Spoiler free review

Title: Because You Love to Hate Me
Author: Multiple; edited by Ameriie
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publication date: September 2017
RRP: $14.99 AUD

Synopsis:
In this collection each booktuber gives one author a writing prompt, from which the author has created a story, written from the point of view of a famous villain. They may be stories of vengeance, of defiance, of rage. They might be stories of pain, of heartbreak, of sorrow. But they will definitely not be stories about do-gooders doing good. Leave it to the heroes to help the world; villains just want to rule the world. We love to hate them and they hate to be loved.

I was so excited to receive this in the mail despite not always loving short stories - they're too short! However, a bunch of short stories about villains, YES PLEASE.

I've been putting off writing this review because I had no idea how to write it. I didn't want to talk about every single story and I didn't want it to be too short - it might be though, so here goes...

A few of the stories were average, some were below average. For some of the them, the story was simply too... bland and repetitive? Others had a great idea to them but there was too much time spent on the beginnings of the story and the middle and/or ending was therefore rushed.

I felt that some of the stories were done pretty well. My favourites were The Sea Witch by Marissa Meyer, Shirley & Jim by Susan Dennard, Beautiful Venom by Cindy Pon and Death Knell by Victoria Schwab. The stories were brilliant and I felt they were executed beautifully as a short story.

I also enjoyed Jack by Ameriie, Marigold by Samantha Shannon (a great message!) and Sera by Nicola Yoon.

I wasn't at all interested in the booktuber commentary part - I'm sorry! I tried to start reading it but I'm not into a lot of the booktubers that were in there so it was hard for me to read it and then I just ended up skipping all of them.

Overall, if you like short stories - more so if they are told in a villain's perspective, then I think you'll enjoy this book.



Rating: 3/5


*This book was sent to me unsolicited by Bloomsbury Australia. All opinions are my own.


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