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

unexpected story also loved the banter

the banter between the characters was hilarious 😂.
Frankly though the story was more darker then I anticipated I was expecting more of an anti-hero story this is more of a story of a narcissistic Harley Quinn type of crazy meets fantasy world which was both unexpected and a kinda nice surprise

shits banging

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

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

Everly is boss

Everly is a despicable person with goals. I enjoyed the pop culture references, the action and the humor. The writing was great. The narrator was wonderful. Looking forward to the next one.

Ugh

Stage acting does not work with audiobooks. It’s a shame hollie has an excellent range. But she ruins it with B rated stage acting. i’m really struggling to get past the annoyance of it.
She also reads this book in three different speeds. Extremely slow normal and slightly faster than normal. So you can’t really change the speed you’re listening to because the rest of it will sound like garbage. Take a speed and stick with it.

Finally!

A true villain as a MC FINALLY!!! Great story, lots of details, and WOW. I need 15 words.

an interesting concept but taken to far

I get the idea of an evil MC but this one is way to much she's evil, twisted, crazy and insufferable I truly hope she gets utterly eradicated at some point but unfortunately I'll never know cuz I'm getting off here.

I woyld have dropped this 10 chapters in if I was reading it.

This is a boring book and has some serious issues in keeping the story balanced. If you like power fantasies go ahead and try it, but I cant recommend this book to anyone else that does not favor that genre. The only way I managed to stay for 30 chapters in this story was because I was listening to it and not reading.

Plot problems(minor spoilers ahead, read at you discretion):
-The book starts with someone's else perspective, it does it so often that it interrupts the flow of the story and make you lose interest in it every time it does so. Most of the characters the story changes the POV to are not important for the story at all and will only appear in that single chapter making it feel like a waste of time and obly being useful for info dumping on the reader/listener.
-Right from the start we get an info dump with no prior knowledge of the world and no way to make sense of it. There is no world building at all we are just supposed to digest a ton of info every chapter or so.



[HEAVY SPOILER AHEAD]


-The main character becomes the strongest person in the planet when she is barely 1 year old. There is absolutely nothing as broken as her. Even in the anime/manga/light novel Overlord the main character that is the most powerful lich in the world still faces challenges, while the main character of this book just waves a hand and destroy everything.
-Many of the characters in the book are plain stupid to an infuriating degree. The most infuriating of all moments was when a knight had one of the 7 Demon lords, creatures that want the world to be destroyed so much that everyone hates them, injured in front of him and he decides not to kill him because he doesn't want to dirty his dagger with his blood, A KNIGHT does not want blood in his weapons. Utter stupidity, instead of weakening the demons he just creates a grudge, major failure for the author.
-The MC is a villain and batshit crazy, so this next part can be excused a little. The MC swears that she does not kill for no reason, but in multiple parts of the book she contradicts herself over and over again, and yeah she finds justification or don't do it sometimes, but not because she swore not to, but because of some other random reason. She also has nothing that can make the reader want to follow her throughout the story, other than some little comedy every now and them.