“Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me” by Django Wexler
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Rating: 4/5 Stars.
An interesting conclusion to the story of the Dark Lord Davi, caught in a time loop but now, maybe, with a chance of breaking it. Having become the Dark Lord, she now wants to do something other Dark Lords in her past did not do: make peace with the humans instead of obliterating them.
This should be easy, since she has died trying to be their saviour hundreds of times in the past and knows the workings of the human Kingdom intimately. But things don’t turn out that way when she discovers the Prince is not in charge as expected, and she has to deal with a bloodthirsty Duke that wants nothing more that to kill the horde of wilders under her protection.
She will need to work quickly to try to negotiate a peace between the wilders and humans. But just when it appears that she might succeed, events occur to ruin her plans. But the events would also hold revelations about the time loop she is in and who might be responsible for creating and maintaining it. In the end, if she is to have any chance of making peace, she will have to break the loop, even if it means actually dying in the process.
A fun conclusion to the story, with the ending showing a way for wilders and humans to live together and, together, maybe discover more about the magical world that they live in.
Book read from 2026/06/16 to 2026/06/19.