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Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
4.0
adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ooooh. This was right on the edge of too silly, for me, but somehow it wasn't. This is an isekai/portal fantasy, in which a young woman with stage four cancer gets popped into a high fantasy, extremely high drama setting, and finds herself the villain ('villain') of the piece; hilarity, gore, betrayal, love and all that good stuff ensues. Overblown fantasy has always been my jam, and this is both a love letter to and a gentle lampoon of it, so even though some of the Americanisms made me actually cringe, if that sounds good to you, I recommend.