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Scott's Take: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan is a book I would not have gotten except for the fact that when I was scrolling through Libby the cover made me take a look at it. There was a blurb comment attributed to Leigh Bardugo that she liked it. I like Leigh Bardugo’s books, so I picked it up.

 

This first book in the Time of Iron series is a strange read with a lot of metafictional elements making fun of adult fantasy novels. In this novel, a woman who is dying of cancer is given a second chance at life by going into a book series she has somewhat read. Without spoiling the read, there is a way for her to come back to the real world and be well, if she escapes into the fictional series and does what she had to do. This is not explained in the book synopsis.

 

So, she goes into the fictional world and ends up taking over the body of a villain that is going to be executed. She thinks that by paying the role of a villain, and using her knowledge of the series, she can find a way for the bad folks or, at least the bad woman she now inhabits, can win. This is also not really explained well in the book synopsis. I think the book synopsis does a bad job of explaining the book, but a good job of describing elements of the book.

 

There is humor, action, adult sexual content, violence, and more, as this book weaves through multiple perspectives until its abrupt end. This is a read that I think you will enjoy more if you have read a lot of these kind of fantasy novels. There are jokes that one character makes that another does not like, such as calling his horse, Google Maps, since it never gets lost.

 

It gets weird since it’s a book about someone becoming part of another book, which is changing the original plot line of the book that the real person got inserted into, which also gets even weirder because of spoiler reasons. Having a normal person interacting with fictional archetype people is a big part of the fun. The next book,  All Hail Chaos, is already out and I have put a hold on it through Libby. 

 

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As mentioned, my reading copy was a digital read through the Libby App and the Dallas Public Library System.

 

 

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Yellow Boners

When Sandi was doing chemo, she had to eat a lot of them. I started calling them "Yellow Boners." There was one day in infusion when I got her to say loudly, "I do NOT want a Yellow Boner. Stop it!" I die laughing. Nurses ask what is going on and I tell them. A couple of infusions later, one of the nurses tells me that she she told her husband who thought it was funny. Her teenage son heard  her tell Dad. Later, a day or two, he yelled at the store while holding up bananas, "Mom! You want some more Yellow Boners?" Apparently the phrase had taken hold in her house between her teenage son and her younger son. She told me how this was all my fault while I sat there and laughed.

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse

  

Karsten Dusse is a German lawyer, actor, and television scriptwriter. He’s received the German Television Award and the German Comedy Award. His debut novel Achtsam Morden was published by Heyne Verlag in 2019. It was translated into English by Florian Duijsens and published in the UK as Murder Mindfully by Faber & Faber in February 2025. It will be released in the US by Soho Crime in April 2026. Netflix realized what a gem it is and turned it into a series. Fortunately for all of us, there are four more titles in the series. The second, My Inner Child Wants to Murder Mindfully, also translated by Florian Duijsens, will be published by Faber & Faber on 15 January 2026. My copy is on pre-order with Waterstones.

Björn Diemel is just a plain ordinary lawyer, working far too many hours to keep the partners in his law firm happy and coping with a difficult client. A client so difficult that no one else in the firm can deal with him but Diemel seems to have a knack for pleasing the challenging Dragan Sergowicz. Diemel’s wife Katharina, however, is tired of Diemel working so much. She tells him he must find more time with his family or she will leave and take their daughter Emily. Diemel adores his daughter, so reluctantly he signs up for sessions with Joschka Breitner, a mindfulness coach who encourages Diemel to breathe deeply, to live in the moment, to only do the things he wants to do, and on and on.

Diemel begins to take Breitner’s advice with devastatingly unexpected but funny results. He gets rid of his client, he stands up to the draconian receptionist in his law office, he refuses to cower when the partners of the firm take him to task. Best of all, he gets more time with his daughter, which he realizes is the most important thing of all.

A tongue-in-cheek send-up of the “everything is beautiful” mindset with a comedic if violent approach to organized crime. The funniest bit may be when Diemel accidentally discovers a completely legal way to make useful people like police detectives and government officials obligated to him that doesn’t involve bribes, drugs, or lavish parties.

A wildly original and witty book. Highly recommended.

 

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Publication date: February 1, 2025

Language: English

Print length: 416 pages

ISBN: 9780571384044

 

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2026 

Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.

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