All of Us Villains: Tiktok made me buy it!
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The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...
You Fell in Love with the Victors of the Hunger Games.
Now Prepare to Meet the Villains of the Blood Veil.
The Blood Moon rises. The Blood Veil falls. The Tournament begins.
Every generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death.
The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world—one thought long depleted.
But this year a scandalous tell-all book has exposed the tournament and thrust the seven new champions into the worldwide spotlight. The book also granted them valuable information previous champions never had—insight into the other families’ strategies, secrets, and weaknesses. And most important, it gave them a choice: accept their fate or rewrite their legacy.
Either way, this is a story that must be penned in blood.
The All of Us Villains Duology:
#1) All of Us Villains
#2) All of Our Demise
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Community Reviews
All of Us Villains takes seven kids from seven magical families and locks them away within a competition. Part Hunger Games, part Tri-Wizard Tournament, All of Us Villains gives readers a character-driven story about what it means to be powerful in a world that marks you as a villain.
Storytelling
All of Us Villains has got to be one of the best books I have read this year. One of the taglines for promoting this book says, “You Fell in Love with the Victors of the Hunger Games. Now Prepare to Meet the Villains of the Blood Veil.” Talk about a great way to build up the hype for this novel. Of course, being a Hunger Games fan, I was immediately hooked but wondered would it live up to my expectations?
It did.
In this world, magick lives, but high magick is rare. So in the town of Ilvernath, seven families, to save their city and their lives, devised the competition as a means of making the magick fair game. Survive, and your family controls the wellspring. Well, someone in this tiny little town publicized the horrors of this cursed game because it is a curse as far as magic is concerned, and now they have caught the eye of the media and the world.
It is a high-tension story between four different perspectives, four challengers, and their plans to survive the Blood Veil. But there is more than just survival; there is history. Locations, magical points that differ with their traps and safeties, and have different defenses and relics that fall from the sky, each with its own magical enhancement. Each item offers the readers and the characters more history of the curse that forces them to kill one another.
There is excellent plot development, unique twists, turns, and the tension and pace they build off of one another to create this fantastic story that keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end.
Characterization
However, the best thing about All of Us Villains are the characters. All of Us Villains is a character-driven novel.
These characters are raised to be villains, feared, and hated by the townspeople. But more importantly, they are pitted against one another, others they would have been friends with if the circumstances were different. Since childhood, they are reared to be powerful and not fall short because doing so would mean death.
This leads to a lot of complex characterization. The characters struggle with their internal conflicts, grief, anger, and the consequences of their actions. Some even struggle with the love they hold, both familial and romantic.
To see the internal struggle of the characters and how it adds to their development makes them incredibly engaging characters. They evolve and keep the reader guessing because they are supposed to be the villains.
So there’s a lot to unpack regarding their personalities and growth.
Final Thoughts
All of Us Villains is one of the best books I’ve read this year. It is masterful, engaging, and wonderfully unpredictable from beginning to end.
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Kinda lost my connection to the characters with some decisions that didn't make sense to me but I'm still hooked quite enough hehe
I devoured it in a couple of sittings and will get through the second whenever I can get my hands on it!
It's a little too shippy for its own good and that took away from the mystery for me a little but I'm gleefully waiting to return to the characters in the next one and see their ending!
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