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"Who's your all-time favorite book villain?"
My answer:
I tend to enjoy books that have a conflict rather than a villain as it's driving force, so this is difficult. But as I am a character person (as opposed to a plot person), I like my villains to be complex, preferably tortured souls, who have misguided reasons for doing what they do.
So I choose The Queen of Attolia from the book The Queen of Attolia
, (which is the sequel to The Thief
) simply because she does something unforgivable to the beloved protagonist, Gen, that makes you just want to hate her forever. However, as I said I like my characters complex and layered, so your feelings toward the Queen change as you read the book. It's excellent - if you haven't heard of these books, go read them right now!!!
Never heard of them, but I will have to look into them. I am an old follower stopping by.
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I'm hopping by. Those look really good, might have to add them to my TBR pile!
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Hopping through! New follower!
ReplyDeleteI've heard great things about Queen of Attolia. I really want to read it.
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My favorite book villain is, hands down, is the Napoleon of crime -
ReplyDeleteProfessor James Moriarty.
It took me less than ten seconds to come up with my answer. But you'll
never guess why.
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Howard Sherman
http://www.howardsherman.net
Villains aren't my typical fare. But I managed to think up three. Happy Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteThis series looks really good! Haven't had time to check it out, though. :(
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Lucia
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I've never read those books, but I suppose I'll check em out.
ReplyDeleteI'm following via the hop, I'd love it if you passed by my blog!
Have a great weekend!
What an interesting choice! I really saw it as a choice that she didn't want to make, but she had to... because Gen had really been purchasing borrowed time for a WHILE and it was at a point where his thievery was finally, finally going to catch up with him.
ReplyDeleteMadigan - Yay! Someone else who has read these amazing books! I completely agree with you on all points. Like I said, Attolia's not really a villain and has complex motives for what she does. I think it was more just in that one moment that I saw her as such because I didn't really know her yet at that point. Also, simply the sheer shock of what she does really stood out to me, and when a book can make me feel so devastated about something and affect me that strongly, it deserves any mention I can give it.
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for your comments!