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One for All by Lillie Lainoff
4.0
“We’re Musketeers. We are sisters in arms. We don’t let each other fall, and we never will.”
This is a YA historical fiction that is a gender reversed take on The Three Musketeers. It follows Tania, who’s father was recently brutally murdered, as she joins a secret organisation of female musketeers under the guise of a ladies finishing school, to infiltrate French high society and find answers on who killed her father, whilst trying to foil an assassination attempt before it’s too late.
Tania has POTS, though being historical it isn’t defined as such. The chronic illness representation of this book is the reason I read it. Tania is told she will never amount to anything, loses childhood friends, and is told she won’t be able to marry for love because she is a “sick girl”. Her self confidence and self worth are so low when she joins L’Academie des Mariess. But with the support of her peers and mentor, she goes from helpless to “I am not a the fragile, breakable thing you’d have me be.” whilst duelling after a pursuit through the city
This is a YA historical fiction that is a gender reversed take on The Three Musketeers. It follows Tania, who’s father was recently brutally murdered, as she joins a secret organisation of female musketeers under the guise of a ladies finishing school, to infiltrate French high society and find answers on who killed her father, whilst trying to foil an assassination attempt before it’s too late.
Tania has POTS, though being historical it isn’t defined as such. The chronic illness representation of this book is the reason I read it. Tania is told she will never amount to anything, loses childhood friends, and is told she won’t be able to marry for love because she is a “sick girl”. Her self confidence and self worth are so low when she joins L’Academie des Mariess. But with the support of her peers and mentor, she goes from helpless to “I am not a the fragile, breakable thing you’d have me be.” whilst duelling after a pursuit through the city