I was a little hesitant at first reading this. The idea seemed really interesting but it felt a little slow getting to the actual tournament. I was also a little worried about how the whole magic battle was going to work. Whenever a book is compared to the Hunger Games I also feel its setting it up to fail really, and I couldn't see how the whole battle to the death would work when no one was actually touching. However, I have to say my fears were unfounded and the story was nothing like the Hunger Games, which is a good thing.

SO first off the characters. I really like them. The chapters are told from the different perspectives of the main characters or "champions" of the battle. These champions quickly evolve. Initially I didn't really know who I was supposed to be rooting for but as they develop i found myself rooting for all of them (well the main ones anyway). Alistair was officially my favourite and I really liked the development between him and Isobel. I also found myself rooting for Gavin a little and although Briony is kind of annoying, I still wanted her to succeed. The characters are not simple. There are times when they turn and you feel a bit bad for supporting them. I liked these twists as it felt real and complex.

Now the plot. Its different. Its quite complex and there is a lot going on. I think this is why the beginning felt a little slow but I see it was necessary. At first I didn't get the whole book thing but as things developed I found I enjoyed reading the little exert at the start of each chapter. I thought they were like precursors (no pun intended) of what was coming. I also liked the way the battle ground was set up, again it becomes clearer as the story develops. The idea of the book is simple - break the curse but towards the end several other elements are thrown in, such as ancient magic, revenge and the afterlife. I have to say im not a fan of Hendry and I dont really get the whole ghost thing but seeing as t ended where it did, I'm guessing this will be explained in book 2. Because yes, this ends literally mid battle. I was reading it and thinking no way are they going to get through the battle in these last few pages, and then sure enough, the book ended. There are cliff hangers and there are cliff hangers! Am i happy it ended there/ Well if book 2 was available straight away then no, id be fine, I'd just go buy book two, but if i have to wait 6 months I may well go mad.

Oh and I should mention Reid! What is with this guy? I wasn't shocked to find out what I found out but I dont get why. Is he a jaded relative? Is he a champion from long ago using some kind f anti aging spell? Is he the designer? What is this guys problem????? Also he wears too much eyeliner and seems like a cliche.

So should you read this book. YES. Will you be peeved when it ends and you have to wait to see what happens. YES. What more can I say, except I hope the authors are busy writing the next instalment.

This is all your YA dystopian dreams come true! All the magic, action and twists of turns from such genre classics come together to create an enthralling new adventure.

3,5 stars.

This book was genuinely interesting. I believe that its strongest asset was the magic (or rather, magick) system, so it’s not a coincidence that it is what the plot revolves around. The authors took their time setting up the world and introducing us to the characters, which in my opinion is what makes this novel work. It’s evident that they developed this world, its rules, and its people with care, paying attention to all details.

We follow four different voices — Alistair, Isobel, Gavin, Briony — each with their own POV chapters, which allows us to learn more about them as individuals as well as their family history, something extremely important in the context of this story. As a character-driven reader, it was fantastic to witness how, despite all of them having been brought up to compete in this tournament, they all had different approaches to it (some willing to do anything to win, and others wholly resenting it).

The story is full of twist and turns that had me at the end of my seat — at one point a plot twist shocked me so much that for more than two days I had to wait and process it before I could pick the book back up. However, my only gripe was that the pacing felt somewhat inconsistent. After having spent almost half the book setting up the scene, when the action finally happens, it does so extremely fast and rather confusedly. It is also worth saying that the writing is quite accessible — almost plain at times, but that’s obviously up to personal preference. Despite that, it didn’t hinder my enjoyment of it much, but it is something to keep in mind.

All in all, All of Us Villains was highly entertaining and a solid first installment to the series. It does a fantastic job of acquainting the reader with this world and providing insight for each of the main characters, that, hopefully, we’ll get to explore even further in the next volume.

Holy Thor! This is exactly what I needed and didn't realise.
If you take Hunger Games, mix in the Addams family and allow Quentin Tarantino to direct it, you get All of us Villains.
A truly bloodthirsty novel about seven families who compete every twenty years to hold the last remaining traces of High Magick.
These seven aristocratic families, straight from the pages of the Dark Lord himself, send their Champion into a ten-week tournament of death where only one will remain to collect the High Magick. These children may have been primed from birth to accept their fate but they are little prepared for the reality of outright murder.
With charismatic and oddly sympathetic characters who falter and grow before your eyes and a puzzle straight from The Inheritance Games, this book will keep you guessing all the way until the end...
And beyond as It has a flipping cliffhanger!

If you get a chance to read this I can't recommend it enough!

With thanks to Netgalley for a ecopy.

All of Us Villains is everything I ever wanted out of The Hunger Games, but it’s more ruthless, monstrous, and most importantly - there’s magic.

I loved the choice of different perspectives. Getting into the mindset of each of these teens, learning their backstory, and gaining more information about them than just what others claim. Everyone has their own story, and it’s very different from all the lore and faces that they show the world.

My only criticism would be the pacing. I often didn’t feel much urgency, even when events were life and death or extremely vital to the plot. And while the ending was enjoyable, it felt unsatisfying with so many loose ends - nothing was truly tied up.

I’d highly recommend adding this one to your TBR and I can’t wait to see what happens next!

All of us Villains originally interested me because the description referenced The Hunger Games which has always been a favorite series of mine. This book takes place in an alternate universe where common magic is spread throughout the land, however, high magic still exists and is competed for by the top magical families every 20 years. Throughout the book, you will see through the perspective of those chosen to compete in the tournament in which only one can prevail. Alliances will be forged, unexpected romances will begin, friendships will be changed forever and dark family secrets will come to light. If you enjoy being on the edge of your seat and not being able to put a book down before you find out what happens next, you will love this thrilling tale.

I really enjoyed this. It was a lot of fun and kept me engaged. The magic system was interesting and I enjoyed that aspect. I loved the characters except for Gavin. His POV was pointless boring and I wanted to skip him, he dragged the story down with no point. I do think this book could have been. A standalone rather then a duopoly. I found it did drag at points and the pacing needed to be a lot faster in the beginning. I will recommend this to my patrons and can’t wait to see how it ends.

multiple pov fantasy is like the boss level of YA books and when you compare said book to the hunger games the bar is literally on the moon, so i feel like i went into this expecting much more than what i got. only one or two POVS were fully developed, and the book itself is quite slow in the beginning. for a book marketed as a “death tournament between seven villains” there was a lot of talking and alliances and falling in love and not much death tournament until about 70% in.

I think I just read the newest bestseller! All of Us Villains sees seven teens from seven different families fight to the death under the Blood Veil in a contest that determines which family gets to control High Magick for the next generation! The description of this book compares it to The Hunger Games, but I would also compare it a bit to The Maze Runner as well!

There is so much to love about this book. While there are seven "Champions" in this tournament to the death, the story is told from the perspectives of four of them: the monster Alistair Lowe, the sure-fire loser Gavin Grieve, the first named Champion Isobel Mascalan, and the one who was never actually officially named Briony Thorburn. These four champions each have their own skills, their own strategies, and the own weaknesses and secrets. Throughout the story, you will find yourself rooting for each of them at different points and you will also be sure each will win in the end. The ending, no doubt, will leave you surprised and definitely wanting more!

Set for a release of November 9th from Macmillan-Tor Publishing, this book is going to be huge! Thank you for the advanced copy and I can't wait to buy a copy or two for my classroom next school year!

There is an audience for this book, in the hands of youth who crave gloomy stories about ancestral homes and dark magic. I enjoyed the unfurling about each family story, some of our seven "Villains" are given a lot of detail. I would have liked to know them all, since it was semi-apparent that the less detailed characters were going to bite it immediately.

While I felt that our main characters were understandable, and clearly had a lot of stress heading into this tournament of blood, I still did not understand why they were so fickle while in the tourney. They changed allegiances and crossed into each other's paths so often I thought maybe they weren't really into the "fight to the death" part. It made the fear less believable. Maybe we were meant to question if they were really killers? I would have liked a bit more about that.

Overall, I enjoyed the premise and worldbuilding, but was a little disappointed.

All of Us Villains is Hunger Games meets Harry Potter. This book is filled with some terrible people. Every generation, seven families name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death in order to decide who controls the city’s high magick supply.

The story is told from alternate POVs of each of the families’ champions. The characters were incredible. They’re full of flaws and have dreams, and I loved how realistic everyone was. The competition was brutal, turning friends against each other, and I loved how you never really knew anyone’s true motives. The plot is fast-paced and full of twists and turns. The only issue that I have, and I should’ve seen it coming, was that this is a series, so it ends on a pretty substantial cliffhanger. I really wish that books that are part of series didn’t do that. Especially since I have to wait twice as long for the next book!

I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

Told from multiple points of view, this story follows seven "champions" (think: tributes from The Hunger Games). These teenagers are from the 7 families in a town where every 20 years, each family presents their champion for
special tournament and they have a fight to the death. The victor's family then has control of the high magic in town until the next tournament cycles around. Most families train their children for this from the time they are born: casting spells and making spells and curses.

Okay, it took me until maybe 88% in this book to realize that they were NOT wrapping things up and there was no possible way it could end. It wasn't until I checked it on Goodreads that I noticed that this book is listed as #1 in a series. I wish I had known this up front.

Readers will enjoy reading the story from each individual champion's point of view. I especially liked Alastair, who seems to be the favorite going into the tournament because his family is known to win by any means necessary.

This book was SO GOOD. Whenever there are multiple POVs, I'm a little hesitant but each POV felt really well developed and unique; each one had a purpose and drove the story forward in some way and there wasn't one POV that felt weaker than the rest. The Hunger Games like tournament felt exciting and I was invested in seeing what would happen, especially as alliances were built and fell apart over the course of the book. I was hooked from the start and am excited to see where this oe goes.

While the plot of this book definitely has a Hunger Games feel to it, it is NOT the Hunger Games.
An ancient curse forces each family to submit a champion to a tournament every 20 years. The winning family gets to control the High Magick.
I liked the magic system in this world- curses and spells must be crafted and stored in stones. The characters were all multi faceted and sympathetic in their own way. I found myself rooting for all of them.
This would have been a 5 star book except that it ended SO abruptly. I feel like I was in the middle of a sentence and there were no more lines!
Here comes the endless wait for the sequel 🤷‍♀️
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an early copy for review.

“All of Us Villains” walks us through a deadly competition to control the high magic sending one champion from each powerful family to fight to the death. With each harboring their own secrets and desires for glory outside of this massacre, some find themselves looking to undo the sins of the past and keep their hands clean while other hunts for blood.

A pretty strong start for a new series setting up this world where magic exists but is fragile for some families which helps set up the motivation for some to be the victor over the others. A little Hunger Games like in the set up only with a magic twist which was fun though there’s some of the actual structure that left me scratching my head.

The characters themselves really care the book where the confusion over everything else might have suffered. We are given multiple POVs throughout giving us an almost Breakfast Club arrangement of Alistair being the monster lurking in the shadows, Isobel as our princess, Gavin the one willing to risk it all to prove his family isn’t a joke and finally Briony the one with the most to lose if she’s wrong. Together they have their moments of true villainy as well as humanity but when they are alone you can see the truth behind the mask so to speak and I really had fun with them all.

This book is bloody and vicious and the length some of the families go to ensure the win was just as gritty as I would have hoped and it will be exciting with the way it ended to find out what will come next, and more importantly who will survive to see it.

**special thanks to the publishers and netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review**

This book is true to it's name - all of them are villains! Every time I think the characters are going to find a solution so they can be happy - bang - a plot twist happens so their plan doesn't work. I am so mad that I don't have a second book to read right now, with the way the book ended. During this book I was equally rooting and cursing every character. The bloody curse of a contest was made more interesting to read as the story was told by multiple characters. I can not wait to have this book in my hands and I will most certainly be rereading this book soon. Thank you so much for allowing me to read it - I love this book and it's characters so much!

4.5 stars rounded down because I was unsure.

Okay, so first of all I’m not sure where I went wrong, but I was expecting more of an incantation magic system in some sort of high fantasy world. Instead, it was more of an contemporary fantasy (new places, just modern setting) with really commercial magic. Also, I thought the only Hunger Games portion was the death competition, but it really was very similar.
Honestly, the only things I didn’t like were because of my own expectations. I loved the characters, especially Gavin and Alistair, and the world was really easy to get into. It took a second to figure out some of the aspects of curse and spell creation and use, but it’s really consistent. I also liked that there were only seven contestants. I could not have handled having more names to learn.
The characters were all really well-developed and complex, and I truly had no idea what would happen next or who to be rooting for. I love Amanda Foody’s books, and this was no exception. However, the Shadow Game Trilogy confused me so much, but ALL OF US VILLAINS was intricate AND understandable.

I loved this book so much. It took the Hunger Games and transformed it into something that is darker in a way because almost all of the champions have wanted to be a part of this challenge that happens once every 20 years. It took a lot of the political aspect out of it in a way as well, which allowed us to see it in a new way. The champions are the focus of the book together rather than one tribute. Even though it follows the same basis with a fight to the death, this book brings in a new light. I'm excited for book 2 to see how the Blood Veil continues and what happens next.

It's here! A great book to inherit the love of hunger games and divergent series!
All of us Villains paints a world where teens must fight to the death every 20 years. They are
reprening old magical families and the winner controls magic for the next 20 years.
The world is believable and best yet, there are multiple heroes and villains (characters are usually both!)

Who will you root for ? You may be surprised. Highly recommend this new stellar series.

#AllofUsVillians
Thank you to Macmillan-Tor/Forge and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book. The book is crammed full of plot information. Take your time, a good read.