A review by ergative
Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

4.0

I really enjoyed this! It did the meta-fictional thing quite well, tying together Rae's experiences in the real world with her reactions to the world of the book quite beautifully. I'm not entirely sure that the head-hopping worked, because that shifted the narrative from this self-aware genre-savvy approach into people who were fully embedded in the world, and took everything seriously; but I could see what Brennan was doing with it: sort of prompting the reader to start approaching these characters as real pepole, exactly the way Rae starts doing, by showing us this secondary world through their own eyes. In the end I was fully on board with it.