Please Welcome Kim Fielding, Author of Brute

Hi! I’m Kim Fielding. I’m doing a blog tour for my new novel, Brute, and I’ve been making a number of confessions along the way. Today’s deep dark secret? I’ve always kind of rooted for the villains.

When I was a kid, it often seemed to me that the heroes were unrealistically righteous and goody-goody. As someone who has never quite reached perfection herself, I felt that I was being expected to empathize with protagonists who were not very much like me. Now, many of the villains were pretty o...