Long Live Evil
2024 • 464 pages

Ratings21

Average rating3.8

15

Long Live Evil is a wildly unique novel about a dying girl in our world who gets thrown into her favorite book series. It's a take I've never seen done quite this way, which was really really fun. I love ‘people getting thrown into books' as a trope, and Long Live Evil is no exception to that. I did really love Rae's take on deciding to be evil – you never see people take the ‘bad' side so it was fun to watch her realize that she could do whatever she wanted with little recourse. (Was interesting watch her battle with wanting to be evil, but also wanting to help people.) Rae falls in with an actual sociopath, her maid who betrayed her, and the main love interest of the book.

I saw the ‘twist' at the ending coming a mile off, but it didn't matter at all because the reveal was so satisfying. I can't wait to pick up the next book to see what's going to happen to Rae, and the story itself.

December 4, 2024