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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying
by Django Wexler
If you had failed your mission 237 times, would you switch goals?
That is the question Davi faces as she goes about her very "Groundhog Day" existence. Davi has been tasked with being the savior who will defeat the Dark Lord - although she's not sure how or why - and despite her best efforts, has not been able to. Each attempt lands her a (sometimes painful) death, followed by an awakening back to the day she was told she would be the savior. After being fed up with losing for hundreds of years, she has an idea - to become the Dark Lord herself.
I really liked this at first - I found it funny, and very Deadpool coded in the pacing and with breaking the 4th wall. The premise of the book in itself is an interesting concept - a very if you can't beat them, join them, type of thing- but I found parts dragging on for longer than necessary.
While I enjoyed Davi's inner thoughts on things, some of the humor was repetitive. I honestly thought Davi was a man until some type of pronoun or title was used - to which I thought "Okay, so she's definitely written by a man." There's just something about how she's written - it's not because she uses profanity that would make a sailor blush, or how she's graphic in her desires, but 5 the phrasing of everything. The way she describes things just reads as if it were through a man's eyes. While you could argue that perhaps Davi was a man in their first life who was reborn as this woman, I don't know if that was truly the intent.
The chapters are long. There's sometimes so much going on and other times very little. It just seemed to drag after the first 30% to me, but I really did love the start of it.
Also, the ending really kind of frustrated me. While we have some resolution, it ends on a cliffhanger, clearly to make you purchase the planned sequel, but I wish this had a solid ending to have it stand on its own.
Overall, I did like it, but it did fall flat a bit for me. If you're planning on looking into this one, keep in mind there's graphic violence, casual mentions of suicide and rape, and implied spicy scenes.
That is the question Davi faces as she goes about her very "Groundhog Day" existence. Davi has been tasked with being the savior who will defeat the Dark Lord - although she's not sure how or why - and despite her best efforts, has not been able to. Each attempt lands her a (sometimes painful) death, followed by an awakening back to the day she was told she would be the savior. After being fed up with losing for hundreds of years, she has an idea - to become the Dark Lord herself.
I really liked this at first - I found it funny, and very Deadpool coded in the pacing and with breaking the 4th wall. The premise of the book in itself is an interesting concept - a very if you can't beat them, join them, type of thing- but I found parts dragging on for longer than necessary.
While I enjoyed Davi's inner thoughts on things, some of the humor was repetitive. I honestly thought Davi was a man until some type of pronoun or title was used - to which I thought "Okay, so she's definitely written by a man." There's just something about how she's written - it's not because she uses profanity that would make a sailor blush, or how she's graphic in her desires, but 5 the phrasing of everything. The way she describes things just reads as if it were through a man's eyes. While you could argue that perhaps Davi was a man in their first life who was reborn as this woman, I don't know if that was truly the intent.
The chapters are long. There's sometimes so much going on and other times very little. It just seemed to drag after the first 30% to me, but I really did love the start of it.
Also, the ending really kind of frustrated me. While we have some resolution, it ends on a cliffhanger, clearly to make you purchase the planned sequel, but I wish this had a solid ending to have it stand on its own.
Overall, I did like it, but it did fall flat a bit for me. If you're planning on looking into this one, keep in mind there's graphic violence, casual mentions of suicide and rape, and implied spicy scenes.