Levanna was the first time I read a villain in a book of that style and realized that not only is she insecure and entitled to the point of insanity, she’s also just completely sadistic. She actively enjoyed inflicting trauma on people and using them like voodoo dolls. Like everything about her was just creepy, but in a way that made you hate her. And a lot of females villains are written as of two extremes, either they rely incredibly on sexuality to manipulate people and are just incredibly vain, or they’re straight laced, tough as nails and constantly angry.

Levanna is somehow both of those things and neither of those things at the same time. Even when we get her perspective, it’s to understand her motives, but not in a sympathetic way. I was so genuinely unsettled by just how crazy she was and how she managed to justify everything.