Evil Female Leaders (Fangirling on Friday)

It’s Friday again, and time for another episode of Fangirling on Friday. Today we’re talking about Evil Female Leaders.

Adelina Amouteru: The Young Elites

When I saw this was the upcoming topic, the first evil female leader that came to my mind was Adelina Amouteru.

Even though she does a lot of evil things, she’s portrayed as a sympathetic character. She went through a lot in her life, and it shaped the person that she turned out to be. Even though she does have a redemption arc, she’s pretty darned evil for most of the story.

Elara: Red Queen

I had to think to find out what evil female leaders I could include in this week’s list. A lot of the evil leaders that I could come up with were male. But then I remembered Elara.

If it weren’t for Elara, Maven might not have been such a bad guy. Perhaps he would have turned out evil anyway, but he didn’t really have a chance because of his mom. Plus Elara set a lot of bad things into motion.

Redacted: Blood Heir

I’m so happy that they’re going to release Blood Heir! The release date has been pushed back to November 19th, but they’re going to put it out. There will probably be several changes made to the ARC that I read before the finished copy comes out, but it probably will include an evil female leader, which I’m redacting so I don’t give out spoilers.

No, the main character is not the evil female leader. But there is an evil force acting behind the scenes in this book — and she happens to be female. Now that this book is back in production, I’ll eventually get to see how they overthrow this evil female leader in books 2 and 3 of this trilogy!

What evil female leaders can you think of? Next week, we’re going to talk about books with covers that I love!