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All of Our Demise (All of Us Villains, #2)

Amanda Foody,

C.L. Herman

Start date: February 1, 2023

Finish date: February 28, 2023

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Apr 18, 2022 Vippi marked it as to-read

Please please please, I don't ask for a lot, but I need Isobel and Alistair ending up alive (and possibly together). ...more

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Oct 09, 2022 Alicia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbtqia, library-books, ghosts, witches-sorcerers-mages

This is basically Alistair’s book. He shines in his story arc, all broody big brother protector. But the others… not so much. There’s a lot of forced romances in here, and I love a good romance, but does everyone need to pair up? It got brutal in here with Reid. I didn’t really like his character transformation (because he should have stayed a bad guy), but he goes through some things that probably need a content warning. He’s definitely the proud owner of the darkest chapters in this book. The This is basically Alistair’s book. He shines in his story arc, all broody big brother protector. But the others… not so much. There’s a lot of forced romances in here, and I love a good romance, but does everyone need to pair up? It got brutal in here with Reid. I didn’t really like his character transformation (because he should have stayed a bad guy), but he goes through some things that probably need a content warning. He’s definitely the proud owner of the darkest chapters in this book. The character growth of everyone is pretty amazing, with Briony and Isobel as standouts, but I never really cared about their story arcs. The vested interest wasn’t there, which as a most of the story focuses around the characters, I wanted.
There’s constantly something going on in this book, so pacing-wise it’s fine, but there were parts that dragged for me. Because it’s very repetitive. Find a relic, use it against the stone pillar at a base, then defeat the magic feedback. There’s not even a struggle to find the bases, because they know where they all are and just use magic to travel there. Then they smash a relic. Cracking the magical failsafe is different each time, but again even when they’re being attacked it doesn’t seem insurmountable. Like it jumps back to the scene after another character has a chapter and everything is hunky dory and they’re just sitting on the floor with dead things around them despite being overwhelmed with two of them earlier, but one stopped to do something else and now ‘tada!’ The tension isn’t really in this. For life-stakes type scenarios, it was a bit old hat, and they spent a lot of time sitting around between actually doing anything. But most of it was enjoyable, because you didn’t know what was going to be thrown at them, and some of them were pretty incredible in the crazy stakes.
They seem to have unlimited magic stones in this one too. Even when they say they’re low or running out of Here to Theres, they always have some in the next scene, and enough to weigh them down. And they weren’t making more all the time, or restocking. And when they did make new spells up, they just kind of threw things together that weren’t in the recipe. I have watched Nailed It, it never works when you put in something else and make your own refinements.
Everything was a bit “there’s a magic for that” and they rarely had to do anything. Turns out a battle where you tell me what magic they throw and counter with each time isn’t up my alley for extended periods. Rounding up today.
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Aug 30, 2022 Danielle Tropea Dess rated it really liked it

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