Adversary to the VillainNew · Fiction, Fantasy
Adversary to the Villain
2026 · 444 pages · Fiction
Book 4 of the Assistant to the Villain series: start with book one.
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
By the numbers
53.7Must-Read Score
- Readers0 out of 100 · counts 42%
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
- Bestseller43 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 10%
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.
Where it ranks
- #443 of the 459 fantasy books we rank
- #476 of the 481 new books we rank
- #2760 of the 2,816 books we rank
Why it made the list
Bestseller
#1 New York Times bestseller (1 week at #1)
Reads as
Epic
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