Time of Iron Series by Sarah Rees Brennan

Her fictional crush is the villain. And he's about to meet his match... Rae is a bookworm who prefers fictional men over real life boyfriends. But her life takes a strange turn when she is trapped by magic inside her favourite fantasy series, and she finds herself pitted against her suddenly living and breathing crush, the 'Once and Forever Emperor'... moreHer fictional crush is the villain. And he's about to meet his match... Rae is a bookworm who prefers fictional men over real life boyfriends. But her life takes a strange turn when she is trapped by magic inside her favourite fantasy series, and she finds herself pitted against her suddenly living and breathing crush, the 'Once and Forever Emperor'. In a palace on the brink of war, she has become the villainess in his tale, and she needs to take control of the narrative before it, and the Emperor, take control of her... fatally. This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes. Expect a cast of dilettante aristocrats, knights-in-armour, magic-wielding warriors, sarcastic servants and one particularly murderous, if annoyingly handsome, bodyguard. less

All Hail Chaos is Sarah Rees Brennan’s wicked, unmissable sequel to Long Live Evil ("delicious, subversive" –Leigh Bardugo), one of the New York Times "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024." THE EMPEROR IS HERE. AND SHE MADE HIM WORSE. Rae is a fantasy reader who’s been transported to her favorite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters... moreAll Hail Chaos is Sarah Rees Brennan’s wicked, unmissable sequel to Long Live Evil ("delicious, subversive" –Leigh Bardugo), one of the New York Times "Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024." THE EMPEROR IS HERE. AND SHE MADE HIM WORSE. Rae is a fantasy reader who’s been transported to her favorite fictional world of swords and sorcery, castles and monsters. Playing the villainess, she thought she could change the narrative, but this version of the plot is far much more deadly than the one she knew. Her friends are on the run: the Cobra shelters in an eerie manor haunted by dark secrets, while Emer and Lia stoke a revolution in the gutters. Undead armies roam the kingdom, raiders camp at the city gates, and the irresistible emperor – Rae’s favorite character ever, now possibly the greatest monster in the land – wants her to be his evil queen. Romantic in fiction, complicated in reality. What’s a villainess to do? Time for wicked bargains and fake engagements, in a fantasy where the most dangerous thing you can do is believe in someone. less