Tag: villain

HAWKSONG by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she’ll do anything in her power to stop this war—even accept Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, as her pair bond and make the two royal families one.

Trust. It is all Zane asks of Danica—and all they ask of their people—but it may be more than she can give.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Hawksong (The Kiesha’ra, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30334.Hawksong

Reylo vibe recommendation by @roguesareth

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QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002)

The vampire gets the girl.😏 They fight the evil Queen of the Damned together. Adaption of one of Anne Rice’s novels.

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PITCH BLACK (2000)

After a crash landing on a seemingly lifeless planet Vin Diesel’s antihero character is the passenger’s only chance at survival. Lots of sexual undertones in his interactions with the female lead.

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DEVIL’S CUB by Georgette Heyer

Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the “Devil’s Cub.” Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market. Vidal currently has his eye on the young, lovely, and unintelligent Sophia Challoner, and Sophia’s greedy mother is more than happy to encourage his dubious attentions.

When lovely, saucy Mary Challoner had practiced her bold deception upon the hot-blooded, fiery-tempered young Marquis of Vidal–substituting herself for her young sister he had thought to carry off to France–she had little notion he would grimly hold her to her part of the bargain. Now he had left her, and she was alone, a stranger in a strange land, prey to the intrigues of glittering, heartless, 18th century Paris.

Only one person could rescue her–the Marquis himself. But how could she ever trust this man? How could she even hope to overcome the contempt in which he held her? And how could even the sudden flowering of her love ever bridge the terrible gap between them?

Check out this book on Goodreads: Devil’s Cub (Alastair, #2) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311308.Devil_s_Cub

Emotionally unstable aristocrat abducts a strong willed, no-nonsense heroine….sounds familiar?
Probably my favourite from Georgette Heyer. Second in a series of three books. It’s not necessary to read the first one to understand the plot although I highly recommend it.

CRUEL BEAUTY by Rosamund Hodge

Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl’s journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart.

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle—a shifting maze of magical rooms—enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839984-cruel-beauty

I don’t want to give away too much but the dark and dangerous LI/antagonist is having a rather severe identity crisis. Definitely reylo vibes.😏

LABYRINTH (1986) directed by Jim Henson, executive-produced by George Lucas

Reylo recommendation by @rey-buns

Ah Labyrinth…where do I even start? I love this movie and I have loved it for a long time. Jareth was one of my first childhood crushes. I was doomed from the beginning….always the villains.
The movie is charming, the puppets are amazing, the tunes are catchy, the heroine is plucky and the villain sexy. Perfect.😍