Long Live Evil: A story for anyone who´s ever fallen for the villain... (Time of Iron, Book 1) – Brennanová Sarah Rees (2024)

When her whole life collapses, Rae still has books. As she is dying, she accepts a second chance at life through a magical bargain that allows her to enter the world of her favourite fantasy series. She awakens in a castle beside a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war, filled with dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character, the Once and Forever Emperor. He is impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. Yet Rae discovers that she is not the heroine of the story, but the villainess in the Emperor’s tale. So be it: the wicked are better dressed and have better one-liners, even if they are doomed to terrible endings. Rae gathers the story’s wildly disparate villains under her evil leadership and plots to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor’s fury grows, she and her allies may not survive to reach the final page. Sarah Rees Brennan’s adult epic fantasy debut is an adventure told from the villain’s point of view, featuring an axe-wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a charmingly homicidal bodyguard and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.