But Gavin… I wanted to strangle him the whole way. I felt like a mama - I mean I am a mama but like- I wanted to pull them all into one enormous hug and tell them they were worthy, they don’t need to die and I’m so sorry for their suffering.Ī: I know that I technically shouldn’t be rooting for Alistair but he is such a cinnamon roll under that tough, evil exterior that he puts up! There is something about him that I just want to hug and remind him that he isn’t his family. They were all fleshed out well, and I think that’s hard to do when you have so many characters. Maybe we will get a novella or something with more about them?Įrin: I can’t tell who I loved more out of the characters. The other three families are shown through their eyes, which makes sense by the end of the book as to why. We have Alistair Lowe (the current magick holders and the scariest), Isobel Macaslan (her family collects magick from the newly dead), Gavin Grieve (the underdog who will do anything to prove his family), and Briony Thorburn (the one who wants to end it all).

We have seven families that compete in this tournament… In a way I wanted to have all seven points of views represented but I am actually glad that they only chose four. I’m such a sucker for villain tales! I will admit that I wasn’t expecting to get attached to basically all of the villains.

I was so excited to get it as a NetGalley advanced copy because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to wait until this month to read it as a hardcover. This year, thanks to a salacious tell-all book, the seven champions are thrust into worldwide spotlight, granting each of them new information, new means to win, and most importantly: a choice - accept their fate or rewrite their story.īut this is a story that must be penned in blood.”Īshli: This book… it just took my heart from the moment that it was teased by Amanda Foody on Instagram. The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world-one thought long depleted. The Tournament begins.Įvery 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. Blood before all let’s get ourselves some Villains. It is such an interesting take on the idea of pitting children against each other in a battle for their lives. It’s only natural that we have decided to review and discuss the newest book from Amanda Foody, co-written with Christine Lynn Herman, All of Us Villains. We’d like to think that all our readers are already aware but we are major fans of the villains here at Books, Tea, & Whiskers. When a book’s first description is “the Hunger Games for villains” there is no chance that we are missing that story.

All of us are villains book