All the Young Dudes: Sirius's Perspective - Volume One: Years 1-4

All the Young Dudes: Sirius's Perspective #1-4

by Rollercoasterwords

MsKingBean89's "All The Young Dudes" rewritten from Sirius's perspective. Book one covers years 1-4.

Cover by moony cig.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Fantasy, LGBT, Romance, Harry Potter, Queer, Dark Academia

640 pages, ebook

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[luli (taylor’s version) ❁ · Rating 5 out of 5]

rip sirius black you would have loved champagne problems by taylor swift

[lane · Rating 5 out of 5]

[Highlights: The Gays, peter is annoying idc, euphemia and fleamont are my favourites, walburga needs to die, sirius black needs a hug, remus lupin needs a hug]

First of all, I know there’s a lot of debate in the fanfiction community about this, but it only hit me after I’d started and marked this as currently reading on here that the author said not to post to Goodreads/Storygraph. Now, I figure they meant the act of adding it to the library in the first place, and I hope I’m not considered an accomplice for this, I meant no disrespect to the writer’s choices at all. It’s my mistake, and the person who added it to Goodreads probably should’ve also paid more heed to Rollercoasterworlds’ preferences.

However.

I physically need to write a review for this fic. It’s clawing at my chest and I’ll be bothered all day if I don’t do it write this second at 1:27AM, even though I’ve got to be up at 5.

Heavy TWs for child abuse, homophobia, internalised homophobia, thoughts of self-harm. Also, generally just make sure you know what you're getting into if you're having a sucky day. This is very angsty when it wants to be.

I often struggle to enjoy retellings or rewritings because the storyline is not original to the author and a lot of the time it feels like it was chore. Something written for the sake of writing with no passion or love behind it.

This is not that.

This fanfic has yet to lose its sense of heart and you can practically feel the love the author has for this story, this world, these characters, buzzing through their raw words.

I love works that can read smart without feeling like the author bought a thesaurus and went crazy with it.

And I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve got an affinity for all things Noble House of Black, but I daresay I prefer this perspective to MsKingBean89’s, through Remus.

Very excited for Year 5.

PS. I just wanted to mention how Walburga (and I guess Orion, by extension, but mainly Walburga) is written as truly terrifying. She’s unpredictable and I’m sure on the inside very messy, and even if you know what she’s going to do next it’s still terrifying to wait in anticipation, cause it always hurts someone involved.

[Kyria · Rating 5 out of 5]

This next volume is gonna hurt me in ways I won't be able to predict, isn't it?

[cassédie · Rating 5 out of 5]

ahhh i love it when they’re not dead 🤭🤭

[oixawaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

My tears ricochet is so Sirius and Regulus coded. That's a fact.

[valeria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the marauders so much if I think about it too much I’ll kill myself

[katharina s · Rating 4 out of 5]

“you bring me home”

— me to these books

i love atyd with all of my heart. while i certainly feel like i am remus (dark academia, struggled with reading, then loved it, very much brooding and depressed, impeccable taste in music, sarcastic little bitch); at the same time i feel for sirius so, so, so much. the family struggles, wanting to protect his little brother, figuring out stuff. dead wizards from the seventies you will always have my heart <3

[od · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better than atyd — I can’t believe how little I understood Sirius black until I read this

[sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

first book:
already have cried like 10 times 3
reading this from sirius’ perspective makes this so much more heartbreaking, i cant :(

[Han · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to live in this world forever.

[Berit · Rating 5 out of 5]

in no way inferior to ATYD. I’m completely blown away.

[꧁noe꧂ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Man it was just so good to see what goes on inside of Sirius mind and like seeing all the little hints on what’s gonna come 🥹

[Brecht Reintsema · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hogwarts escapism 🤝 (queer) coming of age 🤝 not written by JK Rowling

I read All The Young Dudes about a year ago and was absolutely obsessed with it. There's just something about the innocent, daily lives of the marauders at Hogwarts, combined with the 70s vibes and just enough teenage angst and trauma to keep things interesting I guess :').

This first part is really just fun escapism to be honest, in a way that I would call "cosy academia". I really look forward to the next part with all the ✨queer confusion✨ but I'm not sure how I'll bear reading through the final parts again...

I was curious about this version, which is Sirius' perspective instead of the original with Remus's, but the writing quality is similar and since it's a chapter by chapter remake it feels like a reread with an extra dimension to it.

If you have any Harry Potter cravings but hate JK Rowling and want something new, please read (first the original) All The Young Dudes as it will change something in your brain chemistry!!!

[Mattie · Rating 5 out of 5]

do i love this book?
read it over my grave and watch how it brings me back to life.

[reader.s0ul · Rating 5 out of 5]

congratulations, you're perfect

[stephhhhh · Rating 5 out of 5]

rip sirius black you would have loved “who’s afraid of little old me?”

[inês · Rating 5 out of 5]

little sirius is adorable i just want to protect him with everything i have.
also, he totally fell first with remus and no one can tell me otherwise

[FräuleinHallo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es macht sehr viel Spaß Sirius' und Remus' Perspektive parallel zu lesen 🥰 ich liebe diese slow burn Story wirklich sehr und auch Sirius Perspektive ist hervorragend geschrieben. Ich freue mich auf die nächsten drei Bände!

[Jess Heath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book 1

[emily anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

5⭐️

i may be enjoying this more than remus’ pov

—onto year 5!

[ounaïssa ★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

j’aurais du m’arrêter là (C’EST LE TRUC LE PLUS DOULOUREUX QUE J’AI LU DE MA VIE)

[Yara Hossam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh god. My heart. This is too much. Too much. What do I do with my life now?
Honestly I loved the extra chapters. They gave me so much love that I needed. I can’t even write a proper review.

[kavya · Rating 5 out of 5]

i absolutely ADORE sirius' perspectives OMG. you’d think this would get repetitive after 2 re-reads of mkb’s atyd, but NOPE. JUST INCREDIBLE I LOVE THE MAURADERS SO SO MUCH.

[sarah edamame · Rating 5 out of 5]

I swear I’m fine (I’m not fine).

[Luvbrxtt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m so scared right now for the next volume

[Hebe Willekens · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love ATYD with my whole heart, so I thought rereading it from a different pov instead of the same chapters over again would be interesting for once. I've always been curious about what happened in the Black home and between Sirius and Regulus. As much as the chapters at home and the conversations between the brothers are painful, I quite enjoy them because they give depth to the characters.
I was happily kicking my feet when Sirius started feeling confused about Remus and what he was feeling when he was around him (and less happy with what his mother did when she found out). Looking forward to the next volume :))

[Tali &#x1f9f8; · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars

This was basically All the Young Dudes just changed the pov to Sirius's pov. I didn't finish it because it didn't really even feel like we learned anything new about him that we didn't already know from ATYD. At some point, it also felt like we were telling it in Remus' POV which is futile cause ATYD is already in his POV.

But because I love this series, I'm going to just give this book a 3 star.

[Laura van Gerven · Rating 5 out of 5]

“i’m good at magic. but you, like… are magic, y’know?” 🥹

UUUUGGGHHH the heartbreak, the sadness, the hurt. wrm is deze pov nog veel pijnlijker dan die van remus 😭

echt my shaylas, maar nu, nu begint what i’ve been waiting for

[julie :) · Rating 5 out of 5]

it already hurts, i'm scared

[luca · Rating 4 out of 5]

louquei