This was my most anticipated read of the year and it did not disappoint! I finally understand sports fans, this was my Super Bowl; I yelled, I cried, I was in a perpetual state of bargaining with the book and every time I had to put this book down was an affront to me - I could not wait to get back to it, Thank you Sarah Rees Brennan for writing this book, I adored this book and I cannot wait for the next one. If I could spend my life in one book, it would be this one, what I wouldn't give to be one of the vipers!

For anyone who’s ever dreamed of falling into their favourite book but as the villain.

This had me evil cackling and kicking my feet giggling. Honestly this book was just a joy to read and so much fun even if heartbreaking in places. The portrayal of Rae as she progress from bedridden with cancer through the book and slowly starts to see the characters as people had me gripped.

I would love more of the Cobra and his backstory.

we always love a good main character but what if they are evil and they saty evil.

this book was amazing.
i loved the taking of the villains. and i am down for more.

Have you ever wished you could get lost in the pages of your favourite book? Do you think the story would change with you in it?

This was an intriguing concept which took a little while to get going, but once it did it was very enjoyable.
I loved how Rae realised how much we don’t see about a world when we read a book. VE Schwab uses a metaphor about how a world is a house and when we read a book we can only see in through the windows, and I think Long Live Evil demonstrated that perfectly. So much that Tae assumed about her favourite book and certain characters wasn’t quite what she thought it would be.
Plus the perspective of a.) a villainous character and b.) a villainous character who has a real world understanding of how villains work in stories made for a fun dynamic.

Overall, I really liked Long Live Evil and would read more in this series (if it is one).

This is for every fantasy lover that has ever fallen for the villain. It's unlike anything I have ever read. Long Live Evil is a masterpiece, I have never smiled and giggled to myself so much when reading before, it certainly has the fun factor.

Long Live Evil has been one of my most anticipated reads for months and to say it's finally here it so surreal. Sarah has done an excellent job crafting a world where Rae falls into a fantasy book and becomes the villain of the story. Her characters are well fleshed out, their actions and attitudes to situations are very relatable.

As a big Manhwa fan, I have read similar light novels but to see this storyline within a fantasy book was epic. I devoured this book and I can't wait to see where this series goes.

4 of 5 stars
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My Five Word TL:DR Review: Slow Start But Have Patience

I will admit that I had a brief moment when I first started reading Long Live Evil where I considered setting it to one side to pick up at a later time (and lets just face it I’m not kidding anyone when I say that because everyone knows that book will then be doomed). Fortunately I pressed on and I’m so glad that I did because I ended up really enjoying this and loving the characters. And, quite unexpectedly, because I seemed to have convinced myself that this was a standalone novel, it seems that there is more to come. Which is a relief because otherwise that ending would be very puzzling indeed.

So, basically, as the story begins we meet Rae, in hospital with cancer. Her sister spends a lot of time at her bedside reading stories and in particular the one fantasy series that they both love for very different reasons. Not to beat about the bush Rae is seriously ill, she is visited one day by a mysterious woman who, in a nutshell, lays things on the line. She’s not going to survive and her family will be destitute after paying for all the treatment. Said mystery woman offers Rae a chance at survival. She can enter the world contained in her favourite fantasy series, as one of the characters and use her time there to retrieve a magic flower, if she retrieves the Flower of Life she will return to her own world and recover. If not, well, she won’t be returning. Of course Rae takes the deal, when you have one choice at survival what you going to do, but, on waking in the country of Eyam, and discovering she is in the body of Lady Rahela, she soon deduces she may have been duped. Lady Rahela is about to be executed the very next day for treason and, being all too familiar with the storyline Rae knows exactly the torturous death she’s about to face. She needs to come up with a plan.

I won’t give away any spoilers but instead discuss general thoughts and feelings.

I feel I should mention that it did take me some time to get into this one. I’d say a good 30%. Possibly because there’s quite a lot to take on board in the early stages and also because it took me a little while to really get a handle on what was going on and where the story was actually going. Rae’s knowledge of the world, particularly from the first book in the series is sketchy and so I felt like I was stumbling around a little at first in much the same way that she was – although she had a much better handle on the key characters and all their ridiculous nicknames. In the early stages I wondered if this was going to be similar to the Princess Bride but I was soon disabused of that notion as this isn’t about somebody telling a tale to a sick person but instead it’s the sick person actually taking part in the tale themselves. That being said, much like the Princess Bride, it does poke fun, and has a good time doing so, at the tropes of fantasy which is something I really enjoyed.

The characters. I really did like so many of the characters. I’m not sure you’re supposed to like a murdering, sociopathic bodyguard but I did. I couldn’t help it. He was a two faced duplicitious so and so for the most part who wouldn’t hesitate to slit your throat and steal the dress off your back – his name is Key. We also have Emer, Lady Rahela’s maid. She’s not best pleased with her lady, as we soon find out, and with good reason, but she plays such a good role and soon finds out she’s a dab hand at wielding an axe. The Golden Cobra is probably my favourite character, a charmed man, he runs the local brothel and has a laid back attitude and a way with words, he’s blackmailing one of the heroes of the piece in order to gain access to the castle and the nobility. Okay, I’m not going to list all the characters, they all seem to have fallen straight out of a Diane Wynne Jones Tough Guide to Fantasy. They all have a role to play and their characters are almost carved from stone. Rahela for example, she’s the evil woman who connived to win the crown and the King by seeing her step sister put to death. She’s also branded a seductress and the funny thing is, whether she’s angry or sad, happy or indifferent her curves are always resplendent, she walks with a sultry sway and her voice is set at a level to seduce – she’s the evil seductress, this is her character, but of course, she’s also Rae.

Now, what Rae soon discovers, much like a time traveller who has jumped back to tinker with events thereby changing the future, the plot of this story has similarly become an unknown beast. In escaping her own execution Rahela has turned the course of the story and she’s now set on a desperate mission to put it back on track. At first she doesn’t feel any remorse, these are not real people after all, they’re characters in a book, but Rae is also now living in these pages and her actions have very real repercussions.

I really enjoyed the writing style. Rae, being a 21st century girl, quite often acts or says things that are way too modern to belong in a mediaeval setting but I really liked these moments, because she is, after all not from that period and it leads to a few comedic repercussions. I wouldn’t necessarily say this is a laugh out loud sort of story, it made me frequently smile or raise my eyebrows at the shenanigans taking place and I did enjoy a lot of the dialogue, particularly when it involved, Rae, Key or the Cobra.

In conclusion, I was surprised to find that this wasn’t a standalone (I don’t know why I thought it was to be honest), and happily surprised because I’m more than intrigued and keen to see where this story goes next. I’m not at this point sure this is the story I thought I was going to get but I enjoyed it perhaps even more for the unusual route it took me down. And, in spite of the snarky brevity and sometimes light feel to the story it raises some heavy topics. Rae, after all, is very sick, she’s also lonely and angry and so the opportunity to be the ‘bad girl’ really appealed to her but even with the freedom that falling from grace can bring she is actually still a good person who really wants to get home (and not kill everyone else in the process of doing so). Perhaps there’ll be some ruby slippers in book 2.

I received a copy through Netgalley, courtesy of the publishers, for which my thanks. The above is my own opiniion.

This is exactly what it says it will be and for that I loved it. I wanted something fresh and new and exciting and this really delivered.
It was at times predictable but I feel this didn't detract from the story and I loved the humour in it even if not necessarily to everyone's tastes.
The characters were fun to love and hate as required and got more nuanced as you continued reading which was nice.
I did feel that coming to the end I'd wished it had just continued and that there was more to read.
That being said it did wrap up in a good spot that leads perfectly on to a sequel I will definitely be reading.
Overall a great fantasy comedy that I wholeheartedly reccommended.
Favourite Quote - "Let's see how much treason I can commit in twelve seconds."
Favourite Character - Key

I was so close to DNF-ing this book after only a few chapters but with the glowing reviews I'd read, I soldiered on and I'm glad I stuck with it as I did find the last 30-40% of the story gripping. There were some great reveals towards the end!

The 3 stars are pretty much all coming from the last half of the story, not necessarily the book as a whole.

I enjoyed the premise of Long Live Evil, and loved the prospect of a fantasy book built off of sarcastic humour and a love of villains, but I just felt the execution was off.

I found the main character cringey and unlikeable. I much preferred other characters to the FMC. Stand-outs were Key and Cobra - both fantastic and dynamic additions to the story.

The writing is jarring and difficult to read in places. I found myself having to reread passages to work out what was going on. There's a lot of poetic writing, but it was just too much. Every other sentence felt like it was a metaphor or simile. I also didn't think there's enough dialogue, and dialogue that is included feels very forced and doesn't read like a natural conversation. There's a lot of 'thinking' included between comments so you easily lose track of what's being said.

I also found that there was a lot of flicking between past and present within chapters, but no real indication that you were doing so, so it threw the pacing off quite a bit.

I will read the sequel when it comes out, purely because I enjoyed how this ended, but I really hope that any follow-ups are toned down a bit with regards to the writing.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a copy to read as an ARC.

This book is such a fun wild ride, and continues the trend of my constantly having a good time with Sarah Rees Brennan's books. The book starts when Rae, a young woman who is suffering from cancer, is given an opportunity to save herself through entering the world of the fantasy book her and her sister both love (in part influenced by SRBs experience with late stage cancer and I recommend looking up some of the interviews and posts she's made about the process of writing this book which marks her first novel length original work published since her illness as well as her adult debut).

This book is quite meta and campy in places, so if you don't enjoy humour in your fantasy settings then it's possible you wouldn't gel with this as well as I did. But it's also a book with a lot of heart, and has a lot of deeper conversations going on, in particular themes of if it's worth destroying others to get back to your family, and if whether or not those that you see as other are worth the same which can form a really interesting narrative on some of what we see going on today in our world.

Through Rae's eyes and conversations with other characters in a world that she has read about and which she believes to be fully fictional, there's a lot of delving into what makes a person a person and can you ever say that death and trauma happening to others doesn't matter if you don't view the individual involved as being 'real', which in Rae's case is because she considers these characters as embodied works of fiction, but had me thinking about how we can so easily dismiss the trauma of others in our minds when it's happening a world away.

But if you just want straight up escapism and fun it's also very easy to just read this book as such, with many fun meta references and witty one liners and villains revelling in glorious villainry with a spectacular musical number to boot. But the layers are also there to be explored if you want for a dash of seriousness to add to the fun.

Heartily recommend to anyone to try unless if you really hate anything that merges humour into the fantasy, and if you enjoy this one I recommend trying Sarah's other portal fantasy 'In Other Lands'.

4.5 stars! I am a Key apologist this man has done and never will do ANY WRONG. I’ll fight everyone.

Without a doubt this is one of the most campy, fun and surprisingly emotive fantasies I’ve read in a while! I wasn’t intending, or expecting, to be so invested in these characters, but Brennan has a way with words, a subtle handle on her craft that spins even the side characters into some of my favourites!

Inspired by tales where the main character “falls” into a storybook world, LONG LIVE EVIL chucks us and our female lead, Rae, headlong into the world of her - and her sisters’ - favourite books ‘A Time of Iron’. Rae is dying, and she escapes her life in the hospital by living vicariously through characters in this book alongside her sister: Rae is obsessed with The Emperor, a character who embodies the idea of villainy. He carves up the world to protect his beloveds, a no-holds-barred embodiment of all that Rae wishes she could be; she loves The Emperor for doing what she - and most normal humans - cannot do in real life.

So when she’s thrown into the narrative as Lady Rahela, a villain in A Time of Iron doomed to be executed not one day after Rae’s sudden “arrival” into Rahela’s body, Rae dives headlong into a quest to change the narrative in order to save herself, find a suspected cure to her illness, and return to her own world and to her sister. What she ends up changing is far beyond her scope to handle - bringing about an entire war about three books too early.

What follows is an EXTREMELY fun, self aware and campy as all hell adventure through a novel within a novel as Rae accepts her role as villain and commits to the part wholeheartedly. When no one believes in you, you gotta believe in yourself! Villains don’t get sympathy, or happy endings, but villainy is the path that Rae chooses, for all the things she wished she could change about her own life. Brennan gives us such an immersive and bountiful story world, navigated by a contemporary teenager - and the result is an incredibly entertaining escapade filled with pop culture references, incredible character dynamics, beloved tropes and just, everything I didn’t know I needed. I read with a smile!

This book has it all. There’s liaising with the criminals of the seedy and dangerous Cauldron district outside the Palace on the Edge; there’s reanimated corpses from the dread ravine that surrounds the palace; there’s rich lore and backstory for side characters I immediately fell in love with. There’s a surprise SONG NUMBER that’s even more surprising for the fact that it works so well. There is a prophecy that foretells the arrival of The Emperor following the sacrifice the King makes; and Rae plants herself into the story as a false prophet thanks to her knowledge of the books.

There is Key, my absolute favourite character, a murderous meow meow with a narrative doomed from the start that made me cry nonetheless. He’s a remorseless killer written SO well that you can’t help but fall in love with him (a testament to Brennan’s skill). Your honour I LOVE HIM. There is the Cobra, a self named criminal with a heart of gold, and a few more secrets and things in common with Rae than expected. There is Lord Marius, the Last Hope, a Velarius, who loves and hates the Cobra as he hates and loves himself. There is Octavianus, a spoiled King who I grew to hate, and a plot that shamelessly flaunts its archetypes and accentuates all the stereotypes of its characters because that’s the point. This is an exploration of trope, and I loved every second.

There’s a duality in Rae that I found so compelling, a complexity of character that, at times, I do wish could have been fleshed out a bit more on page. She is an ode to every person who’s been kicked down in life and who wishes to reclaim power. Rae is for everyone who’s always had a wandering heart for the villains of the story, and who’s tired of following heroes. She’s complex and selfish, driven, funny, enterprising and deep-hearted as she develops, and comes to realise that the characters around her are as real as any.

My only gripe is that it took Rae around 70% of the book to accept that she’s emotionally invested in said characters. This, for me, slightly hindered the connection I felt, because for Rae the stakes were low - nothing mattered, no death or injury to the cast mattered because they weren’t real.

But that ENDING?? I NEED THE SEQUEL STAT. The last 20% of the book was so fast-paced, with all the threads that had built up during the narrative culminating in a disaster of epic proportions. I loved the burgeoning bond between Rae and Lia amongst it all.

I have no choice but to stan evil winning at last (iykyk). I need more about the Cobra and Marius (my second and third favourite characters), and I NEED to know what happens next for Rae, her Emperor, Emer, and the rest. I need it!

When you’re given the opportunity to turn your impending The End into To be continued…, you take it.

Rae, who life cruelly cast in the role of the character most likely to stop breathing by the end of the chapter, is very nearly at the end of her story when she rediscovers something she hasn’t felt for the better part of three years: hope. Rae enters the pages of her favourite series and proceeds to set about rewriting her story.

Being cast as the villain is an upgrade for this once upon a cheerleader. Rae takes her new found energy (and breasts) and runs with it. Of course, things go off script quicker than you can say ‘plot twist’ but being the villain is complicated. There’s the scheming, the management of other’s expectations, the inconvenient feelings…

“Don’t you dream of the forbidden? Choose wrong. Choose evil. Let’s do it together.”

Rae is so relatable and there were other characters I met in the pages, like Key and the Golden Cobra, who I definitely need to spend more time with. It didn’t hurt that this portal fantasy takes place in one of my book nerd dreams, the pages of a beloved book. Oh, the places I would go…

But villains. Because ethics aren’t as high on their agenda, villains tend to be more interesting, complicated characters and I’m an absolute sucker for mwa-ha-ha moments. I’ve got to be honest with you, though. I keep hoping I’ll encounter a villain that gives me Hans Gruber vibes and I don’t think I’ll be completely satisfied until I find one.

This book was a bit of a complicated read for me. I was absolutely hooked by the beginning and the end but the middle contained sections that dragged on for me. For a while it felt like the entire reason for Rae being there was put on hold to focus on the dramas playing out between other characters, but when it got going again it really got going.

It wasn’t until I was about halfway through that I realised this was the first in a series. (Apparently my attention to detail is not what it used to be.) I found this frustrating because by the time the next book is released the urgency to need to know what happens next may have faded. With how this book ends, I hope I don’t have to wait too long.

“Time to take evil to the next level.”

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Orbit, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, for the opportunity to read this book.

What would you do if you became one of the characters in your favourite book? We’ve all dreamed it, but for Rae it becomes truth. Sadly, her favourite books are dangerous and misogynistic, and she’s fallen into the role of the villain set to be executed. In her efforts to survive as Lady Rahela, Rae has to use her knowledge of the story and her scheming to change her fate but as she chooses a different path, more of the story diverges from what she’s familiar with and it’s more difficult to push ahead when she doesn’t know what’ll happen next. I enjoyed the world building and the sweet and unhinged guard, Key. I’m not sure I’ve ever wanted to give someone so bloodthirsty a hug but there’s a first time for everything.

The story within a story was interesting and there were twists and turns along the way which kept me on my toes and struggling to work out how things would go. The characters, despite Rae’s view of them as not being real, began to feel more and more real as the story moved on which messed with my head a little. I’m incredibly invested in this weird non-friendship between Marius and the Cobra too so I need some more of that.

I wanted to love this story a lot more but I think that it might be that I wasn’t quite in the mood for it, as I did find myself getting into it when I picked it up but at the same time, I wasn’t really connecting with the characters so perhaps it was a mix of things. I also didn’t realise this isn’t a standalone so that totally threw me as I got near to the end and things weren’t yet resolved.

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Whilst I enjoyed this for what it was, it definitely felt less adult and more YA in a lot of places. I don't know if it's the writing style or what, but I wasn't entirely convinced it wasn't just upper YA.

This book was the most fever dreamy book I’ve ever fever dreamt. I had so much fun reading this and it had this very nostalgic quality to it that came with our main character Rae, being a fan of the series (if she can be called a fan lmao). In a way, she was a very self-insert character but in the sense that, as an avid fantasy reader, I’ve always somewhat wanted to be a part of the fantasy world I was reading about, and Rae got to be that very thing. However, she also had an amazing and extremely witty personality that was a result of her experiences in the real world, and she was absolutely hilarious. This book is just a series of « what ifs? », taken to the extreme and turned into a parody but still with a compelling plot, a fun world-building and hilarious characters. The author used very common fantasy tropes (especially in those older fantasy published in the 80s/90s) and added their own twist to them so that they created this super refreshing storyline. My only thing was that it was maybe a bit too long and the 60 to 80% mark dragged a little in my opinion but it was still such a good time and I truly recommend. 4.25 stars

I absolutely loved loved loved this book! It's fun, it's witty, and it'll punch you right in the gut.

Also it has a horse called Google Maps and I Love That!

Okay, since no one else will, I'm going to be the bitch to give this book one star. No, I haven't made it past the second chapter, and after reading some of the other reviews, I won't be trying to. Some people did say that it gets better after chapter 9 -- and if you have made it that far, I salute you.

When I read the synopsis I thought this would be like those "a girl from this world gets mysteriously reincarnated into a villainess destined to die" isekais, but while the inspiration is there...

I obviously can't speak about the plot, but I'll speak about what I can: the prose and the absolute corniness of every single dialogue.

But let's start with the prose.

Maybe I'm still in my editing mode from having finished a novel of my own recently, but the prose is abysmal. At first I thought it was just ME PROBLEM but then I started noticing pure craft mistakes. I know this is an arc and I shouldn't comment on the prose because it can change, but I highly doubt that someone is going to do a complete rewrite this book needs two weeks before publication.

The prose its very repetitive, which you'll especially notice when you're reading the same paragraph thrice to figure out what the hell did the author mean to say. The text is full of similies, but someone control F-ed and deleted all "LIKE"s so you get sentences like these:

"Rae swept across the marble floor, her skirt a darting red snake behind her..."
Which gets tired REAL FAST.

The author also tends to repeat the same metaphors, sometimes in the very same paragraph:
"Now Rae found herself drowning in a broken pieces of the world. Fragments blue as the hearth seen from space, with cracks running through the blue as if someone has shattered the world then fitted the pieces back together."

Not one, but three different words keep repeating in this paragraph: pieces, world, blue. If I did that, ProWritingAid would have gone nuclear on me.

Not only the author can't write transitions ( character moving from a to b ) so every now and then you feel like you have skipped a paragraph or something -- but also there are outright continuity errors, things appear and disappear, parts of the dialogue appear unconnected to each other.
This book series is the MC's favorite of all time, but also it's really her sister's obsession and she never read it, or wait she did, but not the first book, and it's the only thing keeping her afloat, but also she doesn't care.

I'm not sure if these were mood swings or just inconsistencies. And oh the dialogue.
Most heroines in Isekais try their best to blend into the world they found themselves in, but not Rae. Not only does she spurs modern slang -- and not even modern slang, internet slang, because I refuse to believe someone would say some of this stuff aloud unironically -- but also talks openly about scenes, tropes, etc. And none of the characters find it strange!

I knew I was signing up for corny. Still I never thought I would read the lines "launched into a villainous monologue" or "villains unionize!" outside of a tumblr post. But that would be fine. I would forgive the corniness, as much as it made me cringe, if the prose didn't try to be so lyrical a flowery at the same time. Like the author desperately wants you to know that she is a big girl, that can write high fantasy, but that's the only part about the book she takes seriously, so we end up with this one hell of a confusing mash up.

Gosh, I can hear the author giggling at herself with every corny line. Eleven year old girls on Wattpad show more maturity in their writing. The publisher sure knew why they allowed reviews only few weeks prior to release.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for prividing me with an arc in exchange for a honest review.

If I had to describe this book in one word it would be fun.

Long Live Evil takes a refreshing twist on the fantasy genre and feels very meta - which was both a pro and con for me as sometimes it worked really well but at other points it felt a bit cringey. The side characters were great, but the main character did annoy me a bit. The plot also fell a bit short for me at points and although I enjoyed the writing this isn't a story that has stayed with me.

3.5 STARS

I had so much fun with this book! I think that its best feature is that it is refreshing in some unique ways. And I really appreciated this. It is original, it is quirky, it is a lot of fun and it was, all in all, a really enjoyable read. That said, I have to add that I was hoping for more. I think my main problem with it is that this is one of those books where the characters don’t talk to each other (meaning that they don’t talk about relevant things, not that they are giving each other the silent treatment!) and this overcomplicated the plot in some unnecessary way.

Another great thing about this book is that it is so satisfying! Our MC is strong-willed and she makes no excuses for herself. She wants it all, and she is not ashamed. And it was soooo good! Rae is evil, without being really evil, and I loved her. I think we need more of her energy around.
Go girl, go! I don’t have anything to add.

But my favorite character here was Key. He stole the scene. And okay, he is evil. Sort of.
Okay, okay, without “sort of”. But he is just soooo good! I don’t know what really made such a strong impression here, but he was my favorite. My absolute favorite and you need to meet him!
And around these two we have other interesting characters, because the Golden Cobra and Lord Marius are good characters and they are worth meeting. I really liked them both, not as much as Rae and Key, because they really were my favorite, but they are good. And some of the minor ones have good moments too.

It is also a book with a strong meta component to it, and this was great. It made for a lot of funny moments, and it made me think about How To Become the Dark Lord And Die Trying, a book that I loved to pieces.
What didn’t really work so great for me was the plot. It is overcomplicated because all the characters are scheming so nobody talks about things and this makes things more complicated, even when there is no need for it. The twists aren’t really so original or so unexpected, I seriously think that the plot is not the main point here, because it is all the rest that steal the show, but still… I think that a tad more effort into it would have been good.
Another thing that didn’t work so well with me was the ending. It is not bad, and it works well with the book but it is not the kind of end that I usually prefer, and this book is not exception.

I think that this book is worth a read, especially if you want to read something a tad different from all the rest. The “evil” perspective here is good, the meta is well done and together they made for some really good moments. And the characters are pretty good, too!
But still, even it is worth a read because it is not bad (not bad at all) and there are a lot of good things here but… but it is not a must-read.

This was a fun and chaotic read that I definitely enjoyed. Imagine being able to live in your most beloved book world and staying one step ahead of others because you already know how it ends. This was incredibly fun to read and I loved every moment of it. Definitely would recommend it.

Long Live Evil was my first Book by Sarah Rees Brennan and it was quite a ride! I did not expect to laugh this much nor the way I had to cry at the end. I liked how Rae was portrayed and how she puts her family and friends first. She is a witty and smart character that was very easy to be liked. The writing style was interesting to me but I did need some time to get used to it. I do have to say that the plottwists were a little bit predictable and didnt shock me the way I expected they would, nontheless was the book very easy to read and had a bunch of interesting and funny characters that sort of created this "found family" trope. I will overall recommend this book to my customers, especially if they like fantasy, morally gray characters and a sideplot of romance.

Will be reading more books from the author!

Thank you Little Brown Book Group and Netgalley for the Advanced Reader Copy
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