Seize the Day: A World Conquest Isekai

Empress, Book 1

By: J. V. Simms

Narrated by: Hollie Jackson

Length: 19 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

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 . . .

The first volume of the hit portal fantasy series—with more than 400,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2024 J. V. Simms (P)2024 Podium Audio

Brilliant yet scary!

We seem to live in the world of illogical fantasy, if people where given power would they be good or evil 😈
Most books take us down the path of chaotic good or even neutral good.
This book is not for the faint of heart and it is well done without being gross. Very well done and told by narrator and author!
Waiting with bated breath for the next, bravo!!

Read the prologue, Its an evil MC. Negative reviews cause it hurt your sense of morals is .................

Good listen

The story was good but the pace could be better I wish it had some world building

Excellent!

Love the plot! The narration was top tier! Can't wait for book 2 to follow the MC on her way to become The Empress.

this was excellent

oh my God I love this so much I don't want to give too many spoilers but the main character is excellent and it's very different

Meh

This is a hard one to review. It's fun to cheer for villains, and Evelyn is definitely a villain. She is a narcissistic sociopath who treats the world as her playground, trolling the world for her own amusement. Sounds fun, right? Somehow, it just isn't. Her character is... I want to say inconsistent, but I'm not sure that is correct. In this book, she is basically trying to figure out what type of villain she wants to be, so her actions are all over there place. I think maybe the next book could be good and I'm willing to give it a shot, but I definitely think this one could have been done better. However, on balance, I'd say it is worth giving a try if you are on the fence about it.

Great Main Character and a compelling story

First review but this story is a great listen the cast of characters are great, the story development is well paced and the concept is a breath of fresh air in a super saturated “I am the good guy hero savior of everyone.” This girl is the perfect villain and she builds the character herself and loves every second of it a true sociopath earning god like power to completely dominate any foe. A great story and an amazing narrator that brought the characters and world to life.

Borderline cringe.

If you want to listen to an unchallenged brat force people to whine and beg this is your thing. Personally, there’s only so much I can take.

*Empress* takes all the tropes that people hate about generic hero types and mirrors them… but does so in a way that the problems still exist. (In a meta sense, which breaks verisimilitude.)

shits banging

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

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.

No real conflict, millennial writing

There really is no conflict or resistance to the MC. She overpowers everything immediately and with 0 effort, (written off with a kind of permanent hyperbolic time chamber). She transcends the entire power scale of the setting in her crib and never faces a single challenge. The rest of the story is just pop culture references interspersed with occasional pointless power demonstrations with no stakes.

Interesting concept executed poorly. Very little effort is diverted to world building and many of the lazy aspects are literally addressed by the MC in weird self aware tangents about lazy writing.

One of the most important portions of an Isekai story is what does the MC bring with them? This is horribly done, as literally every single thing in the modern world is dragged into the fantasy setting by her ability to recreate anything shes ever seen or done physically that she then can inject into other peoples minds with magic. The result is she has thoroughly 21st century conversations with the cast with none of the “stranger in a strange land” aspects that make Isekai interesting.

Performance is OK, not great. Actress has a few verbal ticks that come up a lot in conversations that make many of the deliveries awkward. Hard to judge otherwise because the writing is so awkward a lot of the faults could be on writing and directing.