"When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series. She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He's impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor ...
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"When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series. She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He's impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale. So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page"--
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Villain POV fantasy books are very popular right now and I do really enjoy reading them, so Long Live Evil was one of my most anticipated books of the summer.
Unfortunately, I had to DNF it at 14% which is such a shame. I enjoyed the beginning of the book, and it's a great premise. Rae is dying of cancer, stuck in her hospital bed as her sister Alice reads from her favourite fantasy series - Time of Iron. A stranger comes to her room and offers her a quest to save her life, but it will mean being transported into the setting of the fantasy series in a character that suits her the best. When Rae wakes up in the land of Time of Iron as the Villain, she decides to embrace the narrative.
The book started to go downhill for me when we got into the fantasy part of the story. The books that Rae has read are part of a multi-part series, and we are thrown in the middle of the plot of one of the earlier books. Without really knowing anything about the series, this gets very confusing, particularly as we are told snippets about the entire series worth of books in a seemingly random order. Backstory is given about the future storylines and character plotting straight away which makes it hard to get to know the characters in front of us. I think if Brennan had introduced it a little slower, with more focus on the book in the series that we were in, this would have been a lot less confusing. Each character also seems to have a name and then a title such as 'The Beauty Dipped in Blood' and 'The Once and Forever Emperor', but then some of them didn't have those titles yet as we were too early in the series (the Emperor was still King at this point, for example) so this was also confusing.
Adding to the confusion of the world-building is the fact that The Time of Iron series is sister Alice's favourite books, and not Rae's. When it came to some of the more intricate world building (such as currency), the get out clause was that Rae couldn't be bothered to remember what these details were. This was incredibly frustrating and pulled me out of the immersion of the story.
My last gripe was with the writing - sadly, it's very poorly written to the point that it became cringe-worthy. I stopped reading when Rae told the King he would be 'powerful AF'. It felt very much like it was aimed at 12-year-olds. There's apparently a musical depiction that I missed later on, which sounds intriguing but not worth slogging through the rest of the book for, I'm afraid.
Overall, Long Live Evil was a big disappointment for me and I DNFd at 14%. Thank you to NetGalley & Little Brown Books Group UK - Orbit for the chance to read the ARC in exchange for a (very) honest review.
