Everybody Wants To Rule the World Except Me

Dark Lord Davi takes things a bit more seriously in this follow-up to How To Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying because the rules have changed, or she has—or both. Suddenly, dying only resets Davi by one day, and everything and everyone around her becomes consequential. Now she’s trying to get both sides to a bargaining table, hoping to manipulate them so everybody lives. She learns that it’s never really been Dark Horde versus Kingdom, but Davi versus whoever is pulling all the strings. If there’s a chosen one, there must be a chooser, and he’s chosen war and annihilation. Davi doesn’t need to conquer the Kingdom after all. She just needs to kill the one who thinks he’s a god (and has the power to back it up). For the moment. Davi’s saga is still a wildly snark-filled romp of an adventure, but there are more consequences and a whole lot more heart in this conclusion.