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This was a delightful Musketeer story with a female twist. Tania de Batz is known in her village as being the "sick" girl. With unexplained dizzy spells, Tania is forced into living a rather small life. Her father, a former Musketeer, teaches her fencing to help her self-confidence and to give her purpose. When her father is brutally killed, Tania's mother follows her father's wishes and sends Tania to Paris to a finishing school. As Tania travels to Paris, she wonders if her father really thought she was so helpless that her only option was to try to marry well. When she arrives at the academy, she learns this is not any ordinary finishing school; it is a training academy for girls who want to work with the Musketeers to protect France. When Tania and her fellow Musketeer sisters begin to unravel a plot to bring down the king, they must work together to save France, the king, and themselves. A wonderfully empowering book for girls and for people with disabilities.

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A wonderful diverse read about POTS set in a historical setting! I loved the female power as the girls struggle to find themselves in a time of high tension and stakes. Not absolutely historically accurate, but I'm a history buff so I noticed things but I think overall it makes it appropriate and approachable for young adults.

Fantastic debut and can't wait to see what else she comes out with!!

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This was such a cute book and fun read. I really enjoyed this story and the different take on a well known story. It was very well done by the author and I really enjoyed the main characters.

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Than you to Netgalley and the publishing house for a chance to read an ARC of this book!
One for All is a thrilling and trailblazing retelling—I was hooked from the first page! Tania is the perfect protagonist, sharp as her sword, dangerous as her adventures. This spectacular cast of characters is one of my favorite I have read, and Lainoff’s prose are crisp and stunning. This is The Three Musketeers retelling we have all been waiting for!

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This one fell short for me. I do like the gender-bent Three Musketeers approach but I felt that this just... was so not what I was expecting. I found the characters to have this sense of... not all there-ness, to put it honestly. I felt that they made some really poor decisions and I didn't like the direction of this one.

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One For All focuses on a girl with chronic illness as she joins a life with a group of female Musketeers. It was a story about loyalty and sisterhood. Tania is working on unraveling the mystery to her fathers death, while also focusing on her loyalties to the crown and her Musketeer sisters. I was entranced from the very beginning and it was a book that I couldn’t put down.

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*Thank you to Macmillan publishing, Lillie Lainoff and Net galley for providing an E-ARC of "One For All" in exchange for an honest review*

Ownvoices, Disabled Three Musketeers retelling? Yes please! I was so excited when I found out about this book! The MC is a bad as while also being realistic in the portrayal of the struggles of a Chronically Ill character.

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This book promises a lot, and it delivers. Tania has POTS, and has faced severe ableism in her hometown since the onset of her illness. Her mother, who also suffers from an unnamed chronic illness, doesn't understand her, so Tania's only real escape is through fencing with her father, a former musketeer. After her father is killed, Tania is sent away as his request to what she thinks is a finishing school in Paris, which turns out to actually be a front for female musketeers working as spies. Tania's fencing skills are desperately needed, as an assassination attempt on the king is coming soon, and Tania and her sisters in arms will have to uncover the conspiracy before it's too late. There's a lot to like here, a genderbent retelling that's pulled off really well, and Tania's illness is ever present, a part of her without overtaking her, and realistically woven into the narrative. I do think that things wrapped up too quickly, and that there could've been more character development, but overall, this is a fantastic book with much needed representation.

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My favorite YA novel of the year so far, and definitely a top-10 in general. This was an excellent read from start to finish, with clean, beautiful prose, intriguing mystery, a swoony romance, great girl friendships, and wonderful disability representation. I'm not sure what else you could want from a gender bent retelling of the Three Musketeers. The twist with the LI was something I saw coming but wouldnt want any other way. He was such a background sweetheart and I love that. Sometimes the French mixed in with the English felt a little out of place but that's something that bothers me in USian novels in general. It didn't detract from the story too much. 5 big stars!

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Accidentally requested my own title and didn't want to ruin my review rating/not get approved for other titles by not giving ONE FOR ALL a review. So. 5 stars! Beautiful writing, compelling plot, and well-drawn characters!

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