Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Villains

 


Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

September 9: Villains (favorite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.)

Welcome to my 100th Blog Post! I was being super indecisive on which direction to go with for this so I decided to split it in half - 5 of my favorite villains and 5 of my least favorite villains.

Favorites:

1. Victor Vale from VE Schwab's Villains series. 
2. The Darkling from Leigh Bardugo's Shadow & Bone Series.
3. The Cursed One from Jillian Witt's Jeweler To The Blessed.
4. Zetian from Xiran Jay Zhao's Iron Widow.
5. Cardan from Holly Black's The Folk of The Air series - he isn't really a villain after book 1.

Least Favorites aka Villains that legit made me angry:

1. The Lion Of The Night from Hafsah Faizal's Sands of Arawiya duology
2. Scythe Goddard from Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe series.
3. Elara Merandus aka Maven's Mom from Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen series.
4. Kolis from Jennifer L Armentrout's Flesh and Fire series.
5. Luc from VE Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (I feel like most people love him but I HATED him by the end of the book)

Did any of these villains make it on your list? Let me know in the comments.

Comments

  1. Rosie AmberSeptember 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM

    I don't think I've read any of these books, but plenty for me to get through!
    Here's a link to my own post
    https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/%f0%9f%93%9atoptentuesday-villains-favourite-best-worst-creepiest-tuesdaybookblog-booktwitter-booktwt/

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  2. LydiaSeptember 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM

    I am not familiar with any of these villains. It’s fun to be introduced to new ones.

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  3. Lindsey @ Lindsey ReadsSeptember 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM

    Victor Vale, the Darkling and Cardan are also some of my favorite villains!

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  4. YvonneSeptember 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM

    I haven't read any of these. They look good, though.

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  5. MeezCarrieSeptember 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM

    congrats on 100 posts!! My TTT

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  6. CindySeptember 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM

    Happy 100th post!! I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do so I went off topic today.

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  7. LaurieSeptember 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM

    I haven't seen Scythe Goddard on anyone's list today, but he deserves a spot on there!

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    1. bibliophilebreeSeptember 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM

      He truly does! Just thinking about him makes me mad lol

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  8. HazeSeptember 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM

    I love Victor Vale and Cardan! Great choices! I didn't do today's TTT, but I think I would've done Cardan too if I had remembered!

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  9. Jen TwimomSeptember 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM

    I've not read these, but someone else mentioned Count Olaf and YES, he was awful. I feel like in longer series, villains often redeem themselves (especially in romance series). Spider from Ilona Andrews' Edge series was evil.

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  10. NickySeptember 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM

    Good list! Yesss to the ones I recognise here.

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  11. SusanSeptember 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM

    I haven't read any of these, but they must have very memorable villains!

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

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