All of Our Demise: The epic conclusion to All of Us Villains

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Like, even after Briony’s squad finds out that it is possible to break the tournament, Gavin and Alistair decide to keep playing the cards as originally dealt. Obviously the right thing to do is to work to break the curse and save anyone, but it is impossible to fault the ones who don’t believe in the possible happy ending and can’t bring themselves to throw everything away in futile hope. In fact, Gavin and Alistair are my favorites (honestly, by a wide margin, although I do still like Isobel and Briony), and that’s a testament to how well these books are written: I love these characters even at their worst. The morality here is very, very gray. There are so many people that you’d say are absolutely beyond redemption that somehow manage it… by actively working for it and changing their ways. All of Us Villains was just an amazing book so I was highly anticipating this book and was so incredibly happy to get the chance of an early review copy through Netgalley.

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Foody and Herman team up in this duology starter to deliver a fast-paced, morally gray story of ambition and survival. A strong choice for all YA collections.” — School Library Journal First of all, in All of us villains I was very invested in Alistair and Isobel and I didn’t pay that much attention to the other characters, so it was probably genius to split them in this book, so I was interested in the entirety of the story. I’ve been looking forward to part 2 of this duology since the second I finished the first one and it didn’t disappoint. Briony doesn't want the title of hero, but she finds the title thrust at her anyway as the world outside of Ilvernath begin to hear of what she and the other champions are trying to accomplish, but she finds herself fighting battles from all sides, including her own family. What secrets are the Thorburns hiding? During the first book, I had a feeling that a certain character may harbor a secret crush (so secret that he doesn't know it yet) on another one but I still thought that the authors will go down the quite obvious route that had been laid out in book one. While this change may upset many readers who favored a certain ship, it made me happy. One thing that these two authors can apparently do excellently is to make you change your perspective and feel happy even though you initially rooted for the pairing as well and could not imagine them not ending up together. Due to my prior hunch, I started thinking that there is no way I am imagining and reading too much into this pretty early on (in the first quarter or so) and it delighted me that I was right. I enjoyed the scenes with them so much! All that tension! It´s the enemies to lovers I didn´t know I needed so much. Their interactions full of snarky remarks stole the show for me. They ensnared me. As I held my breath - my heart aching - I prayed for a happy ending for them.Even if nothing of it could be real, I still felt all the pain the characters felt, I even cried because it’s impossible not to with a book like this. Like all curses, the tournament had been built within a septogram—a seven-sided star typically drawn on a spellboard, with an ingredient placed at each point and a crystal filled with an enchantment at its center.

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It was true that Briony had believed the tournament was her destiny. She’d believed it so strongly that she’d cut off Innes’s finger so she could steal her champion’s ring and claim her spot in the tournament. Yes, she’d genuinely thought Innes would die if she participated. But Briony has also envisioned herself as a legend, a breaker of an impossible curse.

Having devoured All of Us Villains by Christine Herman and Amanda Foody last year, All of Our Demise became one of my most anticipated reads of this year. I was so excited to read it and I’m sad, having finished it, that this duology is now finished. I really enjoyed both books and love the world Herman and Foody created - a dark, twisted, magical spin on The Hunger Games. 4.5 rounded up The pair met at the door of the Tower, a historic structure of weathered brown stone twined with ivy and bramble, with a crooked peak like the point of a witch’s hat. All their lives the Landmark had been a pile of rubble, yet now it stood proudly amid the hills overlooking the city of Ilvernath, a monument to the Thorburns’ glorious triumphs. Like the Hunger Games but with villains - it’s been one of my favourite reads of the past year. Spectacularly written, gripping and with really excellent and well drawn characters, you find yourself staying up far later than you should - just to keep reading. As the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended. Those whose lives are on the line mean nothing to others. I couldn't help but feel for each of the main characters in some way.

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However, Briony left out a crucial detail: There was more than one way to break the tournament. She and Finley had begun to dismantle it piece by piece, which guaranteed the survival of the remaining champions after the curse fell. But the tournament could also collapse, taking down all five of them with it. And it was this possible outcome that terrified her.The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is another teenage death tournament, but it differs from All of Us Villains by focusing more on wider societal ills than personal trauma and is a dystopia rather than a fantasy. Except the spellboard had been Ilvernath itself. The seven Landmarks, which came to life during the tournament, each contained a pillar that acted as a point of the septogram. And the Relics—seven items that fell intermittently throughout the three months of the tournament—were the ingredients. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn deeper into the complex world of Ilvernath, and the motivations of the characters become increasingly murky. With the help of powerful allies and the guidance of their mentors, the contestants must use all their skills and cunning to emerge victorious. All of Our Demise is the epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology.

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Briony and Innes had once cherished those stories. They’d been a source of comfort as they grew up shuffled from cousin to cousin after being abandoned as toddlers by their grieving mother. In those tales, Briony wasn’t a lonely little girl whose only real home was her sister. Instead, she cast herself as the perfect Thorburn. The perfect champion. Someone who had proven that she belonged. Carry Onby Rainbow Rowell has a lightly similar magic system, at least as far as spell-naming goes.

they were the ones who'd experienced first hand the price people were willing to pay for power . . . " The pacing is intense. There are so many twists and turns that it is nearly impossible to put the book down. From one chapter to the next you never know what you’re going to get. Is someone going to double-cross someone else? Is someone going to get extra murderous? Is someone’s curse going to act up? Is someone going to fall in love? Swap their alliance? Reveal a secret? Double-cross a friend? Go rogue? You never know, but it’s always exciting and surprising without ever feeling cheap or out-of-character. I love how truly morally grey and cunning all of them are. Nobody´s safe there as everyone in this bunch is capable of swift betrayal of one another, i.e. thinking about killing the allies and even (former) friends. Anyway, while I like them all, the fact that I love Alistar, Gavin, and Reid the most now speaks volumes. These three completely won me over. They are my precious disaster trio. As the curse gets closer and closer to breaking, the champions have to make a choice. Do they work towards breaking the curse or continue the tournament as if nothing has happened? Alliances will shift. New relationships will form. All we know is–the tournament will not have a happy ending. Review: All of Our Demise All of Our Demise is the second book in Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman's All of Us Villains duology. It was released on August 30th, 2022.