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This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villains shoes for an adventure that is both brilliant Holly Black and supremely satisfying Leigh Bardugo Expect a rogues gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid a shining knight with dark moods a homicidal bodyguard and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation

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 Hes impossibly alluring as only fiction can be And in this fantasy world she discovers shes not the heroine but the villainess in the Emperors tale

So be it The wicked are better dressed with better oneliners even if theyre 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 Emperors fury increases it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page

THIS IS A TALE FOR EVERYONE WHOS EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN