During last year's (2008) action packed journey across the seas of NaNoWriMo I emerged victorious. However, I'm not entirely happy with my novel, nor is it something I'm certain people would read. It is meant as a sort of high fantasy novel (I know, I know, but I like genre writing), though it breaks through a lot of boundaries. To the best of my ability, as I'm a bit shy when it comes to sharing my writing publicly for feed back, here is my description of it.

Part One is written from the antagonists point of view. It goes through, detailing him as a protagonist. In the end, however, he is revealed to be the villain of Part Two, attempting to dominate the known world. In it he manipulates a relatively well meaning mage to do his will.

I'm not sure if I'm doing the plot justice, but would you be interested in reading it? Why or why not?

I really don't know much about your story. All you said was how book 1 ends and how the next book starts off. What is the plot book 1 ? Details of him being a protagonist doesn't tell me anything. What is going on to make the reader not think he was the villain to begin with?
I would be curious to read it if I knew a little more about it.

It's actually all one book.
I largely played the villain off as an antihero. Basically he's that overachiever everyone hates, and is kicked out of his home for pretty much being a jerk. The woods he wanders into are cursed, and that curse attaches itself to him. The whole first half is the struggle to overcome that curse.

Oh I see. That sounds a lot more interesting then what I was imagining.

You think so? I thought it might sound a little too cliche...

Don't worry so much about being cliche. Lots of stories are cliche. Most stories are cliche.

What SugarRos said is true -- just look at Twilight. It doesn't get more cliche than that, and yet she's making quite a profit off the cliche. The trick is to do something slightly different with the cliche. Ask yourself what about your story is different from others that are just like it. It's helpful to be well-read in the genre you writing for, to know what has and hasn't been done. You don't want to think that what you wrote is brilliant and original, only to find out that New Writer of the Year just got published with your idea.