Welcome to The Cover Contessa's stop on the Into the Night blog tour!
Blurb:
When things go from flirty to majorly flawed on her first date with James Lawton, he is forced to save her the only way he can--by killing her. Selina suddenly finds herself in the mix with the creatures she thought were made up solely for late-night TV. Into the Night follows Selina’s transformation from a wallflower into an impulsive and dangerous new vampire. With no choice in the matter, Selina becomes trapped between a new man, his wary brothers, and his cruel and controlling Queen, who wants nothing more than to watch her suffer. Selina must walk the fine line between adjusting to her new powers, life after death, and following the rules--all while avoiding disaster.
Title: Into the Night
Author: Suzanne Rigdon
Publisher: Spence City
Expected Publication Date: December 2, 2014
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I’ll say it right out: this is not a
comprehensive list by any means. There are people, lots of sadistic, crazy, wonderful people vying to be on my top
10 list of villains I love to hate. But I had to choose, so I asked around,
weighed my options and then cobbled this list together. Hopefully you’ll find
your favorite baddy on here.
10. Poseidon from Homer’s The Odyssey:
I’m going to start out mild and also a little classical on this one. On the
one hand, Odysseus is this epic hero beloved by all who meet him and we’re
supposed to root for him to finally make
it home after twenty years away. But let’s be real: because he’s got a major
case of hubris, Odysseus brings a load of trouble on himself. I mean, who tells
the Cyclops his real name after blinding him, amiright? It’s frustrating that
Poseidon stirs up the seas and starts a big load of trouble for Odysseus, but
after hundreds of lines of the hero’s self-importance, I kind of rooted for
Poseidon to just send him to his watery grave.
9. The Joker from The Dark Knight: No qualms about it, Health Ledger played a
seriously messed up maniac in his rendition of the Joker. I’ve placed him
adjacent to Poseidon because my reasoning behind putting them on the list is
the same. We’re supposed to love
Batman, but damn it he’s just so good
all the time. The Joker is a wonderfully cruel, creative and brilliant villain,
and as The Dark Knight unfolds, I
found myself cheering for him more than for Bruce Wayne. We aren’t supposed to
love the Joker, but he’s too awesome not to.
8. Gollum
from The Lord of the Rings trilogy: Gollum isn’t a clear cut case, but
that’s why he’s so compelling as a villain. There’s no denying that Frodo would
have most likely failed in his quest if Gollum hadn’t led him and Sam to Mt.
Doom, and if he hadn’t taken the choice away from Frodo by biting off his
finger, ring and all. But he did all this while plotting to kill the pair and
steal the ring for his own selfish purposes. He’s flawed, but still a villain despite
the fact that it’s the ring that warps him into a monster and drives him to do
terrible things.
7. Moriarty
from The BBC’s Sherlock: While
I’m not Sherlock’s biggest fan, I’ve
put Moriarty on here for a couple of reasons. 1. Because every person who I
informally polled for this piece emphatically nominated him. 2. Even I can
admit he’s pretty damn fun to watch opposite Benedict Cumberbatch.
6. Lucifer from the CW's Supernatural: Molded from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lucifer is sympathetic and truthful; a truly fallen angel.
But he is of course the Devil, who wants to bring about the end of the world.
He causes mayhem and the deaths of many in the show, including some favorite
characters. It’s because he is so
human that he makes such a wonderful villain. Plus: Mark Pellegrino? Yes
please!
5. Grendel
and his mother from Beowulf. They’ve
tortured school children for decades. They cause chaos and death, and battle
heroic Beowulf. Grendel and his
mother are quite possibly the creepiest mother-son team in all of literature,
and they did all of this as some of the first villains ever transcribed from oral tales to written epics.
4. Ramsay Snow
(Bolton) from A Song of Ice and Fire
Series (Game of Thrones): Ramsay is one of the many sick sons-of-a in
the GoT universe. He takes his Flayed-Man banners seriously both in his
endeavors with Reek (“My name is Reek, it
rhymes with sneak.”) and pretty much every woman he’s ever met. He locks
his wife away in a tower until she dies from starvation, he flays and
um…emasculates Theon, he hunts down women like animals and then names his next
dog after them if they give a good chase. He’s just a generally horrifying
human being. I’d argue he’s much scarier in the books than on the show, but
maybe that’s just me. Unlike some other characters on the list, there is no ‘love’
here. It’s all about the hate.
3. Voldemort,
aka Tom Marvolo Riddle in Harry Potter:
Yes, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named strikes so much fear into witches and wizards
alike that they can’t even say his name, but besides being utterly terrifying,
he is also incredibly clever. Voldemort isn’t my favorite character in HP by any stroke of the imagination, but
you have to give the snake-like man some credit: his horcruxes are amazing. And what would the HP series be without such a super
villain? Probably just more S.P.E.W. petitions, and no one wants that.
2. The
Overlook Hotel, The Shining: All
work and no play make the Overlook a dull hotel. Jack Torrence isn’t the
villain in The Shining, despite his
famous rampage. No, he’s merely a pawn in the insidious hotel’s game. Who could
compete with rotting corpses, bloody elevators, ghostly barmen who feed
addictions, and the animal-shaped shrubbery? The SHRUBBERY! I will never forget
the sound of the lion shrub creeping up to maul the men, but whenever they
turned, it wasn’t moving. This is an unconventional pick, but I’ll defend it to
the death.
1. Joffrey Baratheon, first of his name, from A Song of Ice and Fire Series (Game of
Thrones): If you’ve ever read George R. R. Martin’s series or watched
even a single episode of GoT, I doubt this needs much explanation. There are
many very NSFW ways to describe Joffrey, but perhaps the most relevant is: he is the villain the
entire GoT fandom loves to hate. Admit it: when he hemorrhaged out at his own
wedding feast you pumped your fist in the air and screamed, “YEAH! SCREW YOU,
JOFF!” He is a miserable, sadistic, whiny pre-teen with a major case of the
‘needs-to-be-killed.’ And oh, how we rejoiced when he was.
Thanks for stopping by today, Suzanne. We absolutely adore your list! FANTASTIC!
Suzanne is a D.C. suburb-based writer working towards her MFA in
fiction. Her debut novel, Into the Night,
is due out on December 2nd with Spence City Press. Follow her on
Twitter: @SuzyRigdon Spence City: www.spencecity.com
Suzanne's website: http://suzanne-rigdon.webnode.
Suzanne's Twitter: www.twitter.com/suzyrigdon
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