All Hail Chaos

Rae is a fantasy reader who's been transported to her favourite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version of the plot is far much more deadly than the one she knew.

Her friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution in the gutters. Undead armies roam the kingdom, raiders camp at the city gates, and the irresistible emperor - Rae's favourite character ever, now possibly the greatest monster in the land - wants her to be his evil queen.

What's a villainess to do? It's time for wicked bargains and fake engagements, in a fantasy where the most dangerous thing you can do is believe in someone.

I jumped into this as soon as I finished my re-read of Long Live Evil. I could not wait to see what happened next!

I raced through this, enjoying the way the world of the story was expanded, and while I like so many of the characters, I was particularly invested in continuing the story of Rae and Key. I did feel like this book unfortunately split up all of my beloved characters in a way that didn’t always work for me, but I am so hoping they will all be reunited in book three in a satisfying way.

I think I actually inhaled this so fast that I need a re-read to be able to grasp some of the details, but I will definitely be reading it again before the next in the series comes out!