This book sounded interesting and I heard it was funny, so I jumped on the chance to read and review it.
Thanks to the author, as well as Orbit for the review copy!
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.
This is the story of Davi, who is a woman from our time who has somehow gotten herself trapped in a fantasy world, and in a time loop on top of that. Every time she dies, she wakes up in the same place at the same time and starts over. It’s something like Groundhog Day meets Dungeons and Dragons. I thought it sounded like a neat premise.
I had a good time with this book, there were just a few things that bothered me. First of all, there are a ton of footnotes here, and while I don’t hate footnotes, I think they’re annoying a lot of the time, especially if there are a lot of them. Admittedly, they’re easier in ebook format because you don’t have to flip to the end of the chapter, but still, sometimes i just want to lay in bed reading and turn the page with my nose. Look, I never said I wasn’t super lazy… >.>
Davi as a character sometimes annoyed me too. This is told from her point of view and sometimes she is just… overly raunchy? It almost felt like it was raunchy just for raunch’s sake and it came across like ‘okay that was pointless and unnecessary’ and this is coming from someone who reads some pretty smutty books, lol… but at the same time, Davi made me laugh more than a couple times, so I suppose it evens out in the end. We’ll say this worked out in the end.
I feel like this would be a fantastic audiobook. Given the right narrator, this could be a fantastic listen. It would solve my problem with the footnotes too. I’m excited to maybe give that a try!
All told, I had a solid 4/5 stars of fun with this one, and I’d recommend it to anyone who likes a comedic fantasy with lots of swearing.
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