Seize the Day: A World Conquest Isekai

Empress, Book 1

De: J. V. Simms

Narrado por: Hollie Jackson

Duración: 19 h y 5 m

Resumen del Editor

When an ambitious teenage girl from Earth finds herself in a magical realm, she could be the hero—but she'd prefer to be the villain.

When power-hungry Everly is reborn into a medieval world where elemental magic rules and she receives her elemental servants—the oddly sadistic Eris and the fun-loving Titania—years earlier than one typically would, she knows she's destined for a command of necromantic magic the likes of which her peers can only dream.

Though she's the bastard daughter of a count and a precariously positioned concubine, Everly is determined to be a conqueror, warlord, and queen. She could be the hero of the realm, the person to save everyone, with her protectors—the Silver Lance—and her beautiful mage lover by her side.

But Everly's no hero. She's an aspiring villain, seeking the freedom that comes with doing wrong. And before long, she'll make everyone fear the name of the Empress . . .

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Lovely Unredimable Monter

Good lighter hearted story of a power fantasy everyone thinks about once. The story shows how insane and crazy it is to live a life with no consequences and no accountability, and goes a good length to show how far the MC must commit to this character to keep herself sane. This story isn’t deep but it’s twisted edgy middle school fun.

I hope the ending sticks.

Pretty difficult to write an MC who is aware they sound like a cartoon villian, but with too much narcissism to care and not make them an awful listen. In this instance I think they did an alright job. The author chose to balance the MC by making some of the other characters truly distasteful and using them as foil. It was definitely a book 1 so it will be interesting to see where it goes. There is a lot of potential here, the author avoided a lot of pitfalls by establishing that in the instances where her logic won't hold up, her narcissism patches the holes.

I wasn't a fan of the potential tether, I'm looking forward to a ridiculous story of bombastic villiany, so I hope the ending sticks. Her and Grail even made sure there is a hero with reason to oppose her just for fun.

It was worth the credit.

great start

great start the mc is arazy and evil it was fun the problem begun in the middle when there were a bunch of random pov chapters

The only book I re-listened to immediately.

This is a good book with an unique concept, with a character that I kind of get (which I don't know what that says about me). The banter is A+, the cast I like, and I'm excited how we get to point A to B. The smallest issue, which I guess will be an issue for others, is the switching of PoVs. Even if they kind of needed a re-listen to get how the PoVs connected, the sudden switch is a bit jarring. The method works better in words than an audio version. If the next books could make it less jarring, I.E, make it sure we get how this random person connects to how MC faster, this book would be perfect for me.

Let the empress rise!

The lady that narrated this was perfect voice to talk for this book and made it sound great

shits banging

very good story, looking forward to the next two. now go write more forget knight.

A psychopath with middle school syndrome

I liked the story it was interesting and some parts I didn’t want to stop listening however the narrator had some terrible voices she went through. The main character was perfect and pleasant to listen to but some of the female characters and male characters were just horrendous I honestly thought one of the characters was going to start calling everyone Mr. J cause they tried to sound like Harley Quinn from the animated Batman series. Other then a few whiny voices for male characters it was a great listen

fantastic story

it's so rare to find a well written villain character. this isn't an anti hero, it's an actual villain, and she is wonderful.

Harley Quinn, an isekai

There is no better, clearer, or more concise way to describe the MC than Harley Quinn. Utterly insane, quirky, evil, and joyous. No punches are pulled. This isn’t your tabletop “evil” campaign. It’s fucking dark at times. Oh and the banter is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.

The author does an excellent job portraying a truly insane mind and one who is evil for evils sake.

However there are a few points that did annoy me. While it is plainly clear that the protagonist is **not** by any means morally good. They continually end up facing off against… worse individuals. For a story supposed to be about an insane narcissistic megalomaniac, she quite often runs into people literally just as evil, and occasionally more so, than her. It comes off as the world trying to be “evil” to make her less reproachable, but falls flat imo. She isn’t supposed to be in the right, she doesn’t need to be, yet it feels like great effort is taken to make it feel that way at times.

The story can be… convoluted jumping to various perspectives without much explanation as to why, and IMO spending too much time in said perspectives rather than following the MC.

Still, 4/5 on story, enjoyed it just mentioned my two biggest complaints for awareness.

Character personalites

Loved the change of theme of the main character being transferred to a different world and then being a hero. Love that the main character chooses her own path. Whether it be saving people or killing people that don’t fit in her narrative. Also love that she isn’t swayed by her servants just because they feel like she should listen to them. But only listens to them when they appease her selfishness