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A review by skyhai
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
1.0
DNF at 50%
I applaud this book for it's awesome representation and think we need, in general more disability rep.
On the whole though, I did not like this book. The author writes a realistic teenage character in Tania. She in some ways reminded me of myself at fourteen. Unluckily, I hated myself at fourteen and I cringe to remember the person I was. At the beginning she seems to be full of pluck and attitude, accepting of her POTS if not a little annoyed at the inconvenience it causes her and greatly dislikes how people perceive her because of it. Yet, as the book progresses it seems that she puts more of an emphasis on how she can't be like the other musketeers because of her POTS and that was just a real shame that I didn't really see a smidgen of confidence or growth from her in the first half of the book. She also has a severe case of being Not Like Other Girls. She dislikes 'feminine" things on principle (god, I'm so tired of corset slander) and when first introduced to any other female character, she immediately assumes them to be shallow and vapid.
Too bad her father also got the Fire Emblem Dad treatment (being a good father is a near guaranteed death sentence!
I applaud this book for it's awesome representation and think we need, in general more disability rep.
On the whole though, I did not like this book. The author writes a realistic teenage character in Tania. She in some ways reminded me of myself at fourteen. Unluckily, I hated myself at fourteen and I cringe to remember the person I was. At the beginning she seems to be full of pluck and attitude, accepting of her POTS if not a little annoyed at the inconvenience it causes her and greatly dislikes how people perceive her because of it. Yet, as the book progresses it seems that she puts more of an emphasis on how she can't be like the other musketeers because of her POTS and that was just a real shame that I didn't really see a smidgen of confidence or growth from her in the first half of the book. She also has a severe case of being Not Like Other Girls. She dislikes 'feminine" things on principle (god, I'm so tired of corset slander) and when first introduced to any other female character, she immediately assumes them to be shallow and vapid.
Too bad her father also got the Fire Emblem Dad treatment (being a good father is a near guaranteed death sentence!