Long Live Evil: A story for anyone who's ever fallen for the villain... (Time of Iron, Book 1)
Autor Sarah Rees Brennanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2025
Găsim în această carte o scenă de deschidere care pare desprinsă din dorințele ascunse ale oricărui bibliofil: Rae, o tânără pentru care viața s-a prăbușit, primește o a doua șansă sub forma unui târg magic ce o aruncă direct în paginile seriei sale fantasy favorite. Însă, odată trezită într-un castel sumbru situat pe marginea unei prăpăstii demonice, surpriza este totală. Suntem de părere că forța acestui roman rezidă în răsturnarea de perspectivă: Rae nu este salvatoarea lumii, ci personajul negativ menit să piară înainte de final. Sistemul magic nu este doar un decor, ci o structură narativă vie unde regulile genului „swords and sorcery” sunt aplicate cu o rigoare aproape administrativă, dar subvertite prin umor și ironie.
Construcția lumii este una expansivă, populată de curteni intriganți și monștri periculoși, dar elementul distinctiv este echipa pe care Rae o formează. Putem afirma că galeria sa de „răufăcători” — de la o menajeră mânuitoare de topor la un spion playboy — aduce o prospețime necesară genului epic fantasy. Ritmul este alert, susținut de dialoguri sclipitoare și de tensiunea dintre Rae și Împăratul Etern, un antagonist pe cât de seducător, pe atât de letal. Cei care au parcurs Assistant to the Villain de Hannah Nicole Maehrer vor fi pregătiți pentru modul ludic în care Long Live Evil abordează dinamica dintre bine și rău, însă aici găsim o profunzime emoțională suplimentară, ancorată în dorința umană de a rescrie un destin care pare deja tipărit.
Deși Sarah Rees Brennan este consacrată prin lucrări precum In Other Lands sau seria Daughter of Chaos (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), acest prim roman pentru adulți demonstrează o maturitate stilistică remarcabilă. Dacă în scrierile anterioare explora magia prin ochii adolescenților, aici folosește experiența sa vastă pentru a deconstrui însăși natura ficțiunii, oferindu-ne o aventură care celebrează puterea cititorului de a deveni arhitectul propriei salvări.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0356522083
Pagini: 423
Dimensiuni: 126 x 196 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Orbit
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Sunteți gata să vedeți povestea prin ochii celui care ar trebui să piardă? Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care iubesc literatura fantasy ce nu se teme să râdă de propriile convenții. Este un câștig cert pentru cei care caută o eroină inteligentă, un sistem magic ce chestionează liberul arbitru și o poveste de dragoste complicată cu un antagonist carismatic. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nouă asupra a ceea ce înseamnă să fii „personajul negativ” într-o lume care vrea să te vadă învins.
Despre autor
Sarah Rees Brennan s-a născut și a crescut în Irlanda, fiind o prezență constantă în topurile New York Times. După studii de scriere creativă la New York și o carieră de bibliotecar în Anglia, s-a stabilit în Dublin. Este cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a infuza genul fantasy cu un umor ascuțit și personaje complexe, fiind finalistă a premiilor World Fantasy și Carnegie. După ce a învins o boală gravă, experiență ce a influențat profunzimea emoțională a scrierilor sale, autoarea face trecerea către ficțiunea pentru adulți cu Long Live Evil, integrând expertiza sa din proiecte precum Ghosts of the Shadow Market într-un univers original și subversiv.
Descriere
'The fantasy novel that every fantasy reader has been waiting for'
Jay Kristoff
'Long Live Evil is a glorious, swoon-worthy villain romance. What a delicious read'
Tasha Suri
A TALE FOR ANYONE WHO'S EVER FALLEN FOR THE VILLAIN...
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favourite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He's impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both 'brilliant' (Holly Black) and 'supremely satisfying' (Leigh Bardugo).
Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a charmingly homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.
*****
'Audacious, and supremely satisfying, Long Live Evil is the chosen one we've been waiting for. It succeeds as both a brilliant meditation on the pleasures and perils of fiction, and a sweeping, romantic adventure in its own right. Get ready to laugh out loud, cry in public, and cheer on the villains as Brennan smashes through tropes with witty, wild glee in this delicious, subversive treat of a book'
Leigh Bardugo
'The compulsion Brennan casts over her readers is unholy. Not only could I not put Long Live Evil down, I barely remembered to blink. It was so immersive that when I finished I put my face in my pillow and screamed in actual devastation at being kicked out of the story. Utterly magical'
Shelley Parker-Chan
'Sarah Rees Brennan's charms are unmatched. Her books makes you feel as if you're in on the joke and always invited on the most fantastic and romantic adventure'
Rainbow Rowell
'Long Live Evil is the huge-hearted and whip-smart epic fantasy of my dreams. I went in laughing and came out crying, and so will you. I'm obsessed'
Alix E. Harrow
'Brennan's brilliant Long Live Evil harnesses clever banter, delightful turns of phrase, and epic worldbuilding in the service of exploring the nature of stories and the freedom that comes with embracing being named a villain - and maybe actually becoming one. Most of all, it introduces us to Rae, who uses her quick-thinking, loyalty, and ferocity to sidestep (and do the occasional musical number around) doom'
Holly Black
'Utterly brilliant. I can't stop thinking about Long Live Evil, which has rocketed to the top of my list of all time favourite fantasy novels. Pick this up immediately, Brennan will take everything you think you know about fantasy and turn it on its head'
C.S. Pacat
'A wild joyride . . . surprisingly poignant but also made me laugh until people looked at me on the train'
Everina Maxwell
'Brennan is one of the sharpest fantasy authors writing today, and Long Live Evil layers laugh-out-loud comedy and swoony romance over an emotional core of powerful anger and loss. I loved it'
Emily Tesh
'Laugh out loud, heartfelt and searing in the same breath. Simultaneously a send-up and a tribute to the tropes, fandom and power of fantasy, Long Live Evil is a romp that leaves you asking: are we all the villains in someone else's narrative?'
Eliza Chan
'A defiant shout of a book, so entertaining and funny that you almost don't notice its devastating, razor-sharp heart until it's smiling sweetly into your face while it withdraws the knife'
Freya Marske
'Brennen has gifted us with a romp of a book that honours the epic tropes we all secretly (or not so secretly) love. Long Live Evil is perfect for savvy readers who know that the villain is always the best character'
Megan Bannen
'Long Live Evil is truly one of the most inventive fantasy books I've ever read. I can't decide what I liked best: the witty banter, the genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, or the clever wordplay. The good news is that I don't have to pick, and it all worked together seamlessly. If you're looking for a fresh voice in fantasy that twists your favourite tropes into new brand-new favourites, then run, don't walk to your nearest bookstore. Long live evil, indeed'
Nisha J. Tuli
*A No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, as reported in the hardback fiction charts on Sunday 25th August 2024.
Recenzii
The fantasy novel that every fantasy reader has been waiting for
Long Live Evil is a glorious, swoon-worthy villain romance. What a delicious read
The compulsion Brennan casts over her readers is unholy. Not only could I not put Long Live Evil down, I barely remembered to blink. It was so immersive that when I finished I put my face in my pillow and screamed in actual devastation at being kicked out of the story. Utterly magical.
Sarah Rees Brennan's charms are unmatched. Her books makes you feel as if you're in on the joke and always invited on the most fantastic and romantic adventure
Long Live Evil is the huge-hearted and whip-smart epic fantasy of my dreams. I went in laughing and came out crying, and so will you. I'm obsessed.
Brennan's brilliant Long Live Evil harnesses clever banter, delightful turns of phrase, and epic worldbuilding in the service of exploring the nature of stories and the freedom that comes with embracing being named a villain - and maybe actually becoming one. Most of all, it introduces us to Rae, who uses her quick-thinking, loyalty, and ferocity to sidestep (and do the occasional musical number around) doom
Utterly brilliant. I can't stop thinking about Long Live Evil, which has rocketed to the top of my list of all time favourite fantasy novels. Pick this up immediately, Brennan will take everything you think you know about fantasy and turn it on its head
A wild joyride . . . surprisingly poignant but also made me laugh until people looked at me on the train
Brennan is one of the sharpest fantasy authors writing today, and Long Live Evil layers laugh-out-loud comedy and swoony romance over an emotional core of powerful anger and loss. I loved it.
Laugh out loud, heartfelt and searing in the same breath. Simultaneously a send-up and a tribute to the tropes, fandom and power of fantasy, Long Live Evil is a romp that leaves you asking: are we all the villains in someone else's narrative?
A defiant shout of a book, so entertaining and funny that you almost don't notice its devastating, razor-sharp heart until it's smiling sweetly into your face while it withdraws the knife
Brennen has gifted us with a romp of a book that honours the epic tropes we all secretly (or not so secretly) love. Long Live Evil is perfect for savvy readers who know that the villain is always the best character.
Long Live Evil is truly one of the most inventive fantasy books I've ever read. I can't decide what I liked best: the witty banter, the genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, or the clever wordplay. The good news is that I don't have to pick, and it all worked together seamlessly. If you're looking for a fresh voice in fantasy that twists your favourite tropes into new brand-new favourites, then run, don't walk to your nearest bookstore. Long live evil, indeed.
I literally kicked my feet and full on cackled while reading, y'all are in for a treat