How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Idioma English

Publicado el 2024 por Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-39220-4

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Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

"Takes the old saying 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em,' to the next level. A sarcastic, action-packed, intrigue-filled (mis)adventure. One of the funniest books I've read in a long time."--Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.

This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who …

Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

"Takes the old saying 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em,' to the next level. A sarcastic, action-packed, intrigue-filled (mis)adventure. One of the funniest books I've read in a long time."--Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time.

This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side.

A humorous western isekai featuring the reincarnation of an antihero female lead.

3 ediciones

matthewmincher@bookwyrm.social reseñó How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying de Django Wexler

Wanna be DnD Deadpool

2 estrellas

I really wanted to like this, and enjoyed the premise (time loop / can't die in a DnD inspired setting).

As the book went on it felt more like reading someone's self-insert fanfiction. The main character has a serious case of woman-written-by-a-man. Other characters felt very one dimensional and single purpose.

The plot was okay, but didn't do enough with the time loop trope, and fizzled out a bit to set up the next book. Footnotes were a cool idea but were really only used as parethentical asides to add a snarky joke.

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American literature