5 Fantasy Books With Villains You’ll End Up Rooting For

In fantasy, villains are beloved characters. All readers need is an evil sorcerer, a cruel king, or a tyrant who only wants to gain more power, and they have plenty of good reasons to hate any of them. Still, some of the most interesting villains in fantasy literature make their readers’ relationships with them complicated. This can happen when villains commit awful deeds but justify their actions; they may be cruel, but they have also suffered cruelty at the hands of others; or, in some cases, they are such unique personalities that readers feel sorry for them when they fail.