Assistant to the Villain

+2 stars for: grumpy sunshine

+1 star for: healthy sisterly relationships

-1 star for: the most immature and ridiculous writing i've experienced in a while. this book feels like it had ZERO content editing. when you look up “tell don't show” in a dictionary this book would show up. it was so unbelievably frustrating to have to read about potentially exciting moments EXPLAINED to you instead of experiencing them. instead we got 60% office busy work, 20% omg look at me im so useless and clumsy bt also stunning, and 10% randomly intense character trauma. sighhhh, for me this felt like a complete waste of potential. the set up and premise seemed so full of whimsical silliness that was just completely unfulfilled. i found myself willing the pages to move faster cause i just couldn't. post reading mood: exhausted and not in a good way.