All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan
Jul. 14th, 2026 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](/makepkg/implementing-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsAll Hail Chaos
3/5. Sequel. More isekai about the girl dying of cancer going into her favorite grimdark fantasy and fucking it up a lot.
Over it. Too long, and with a bad case of middle book syndrome where everyone is separated from each other, thus removing several central friendships that held the first book up. Also, we experience a dizzying sequence of plot twists and setups. I don’t know, it’s one of those reading experiences that I don’t mind while it’s happening, because this is quippy and fast to read. But then I put it down and I’m like, “okay no actually I’m annoyed to still be reading this? And this is so busy quipping and plot twisting that it forgot to be about anything at all?”
Content notes: A lot of violence. Characters who are walking red flags. Cancer. People being shitty about someone having cancer.
3/5. Sequel. More isekai about the girl dying of cancer going into her favorite grimdark fantasy and fucking it up a lot.
Over it. Too long, and with a bad case of middle book syndrome where everyone is separated from each other, thus removing several central friendships that held the first book up. Also, we experience a dizzying sequence of plot twists and setups. I don’t know, it’s one of those reading experiences that I don’t mind while it’s happening, because this is quippy and fast to read. But then I put it down and I’m like, “okay no actually I’m annoyed to still be reading this? And this is so busy quipping and plot twisting that it forgot to be about anything at all?”
Content notes: A lot of violence. Characters who are walking red flags. Cancer. People being shitty about someone having cancer.
