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I really liked this book. I loved the premise - the idea that after coming back to life again and again, the prophesied one would decide to stop saving the world and go become the evil guy that defeated them every time, and I think that in Davi, Django Wexler has created the perfect protagonist to carry it out. She's died over two hundred times. She has just about enough recollection of her old life on Earth to throw in pop culture references and figures of speech that absolutely baffle everyone around her, but they learn to roll with it. She smashed an old guy's head on a rock and then stole his wizard robes. She doesn't entirely know what she's doing but she does it with confidence, and despite her aspirations to the title of Dark Lord she's not really going in for the excessive murdering and torture brand of Dark Lording, which the people she recruits seem to appreciate. She is, in a word, iconic.

One of the things that I really loved about this book was that even though how Davi got to a different world is definitely a big question, her primary focus is on the world she's in now. She is committed to the narrative that she is in even if she doesn't understand why she's there and is doing the exact opposite of what she is supposed to be doing. And she has fun with it! After all, what's the worst that can happen, death? Her approach to Dark Lording makes for a highly entertaining story, and through it, the mystery of her presence in this magical world also begins to develop. I'm really looking forward to the sequel, and I have no doubt it will be just as enjoyable as this.

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Stopped because I did not find the main character to be a convincingly written female character. It felt like the (male) author wrote a male MC and then was told that females are selling well these days, so converted the character to a lesbian… but nothing about this character read like a woman. A lot about it read male gaze… so, no. Hard pass.