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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
4.0
As a spoonie it's hard to find books where I can meet characters like me. And that's a pity. Because not only I need the message that I'm more than my illness, that I can still be a heroine and find my squad, other people in the world need that message too. Yes, my illness limits my abilities sometimes, but it's not everything I am. So, when I saw this book, with a spoonie as the heroine, on Netgalley I had to request a copy. I'm really happy the publisher gave me one!
The book takes its time to introduce us to our heroine. We get to know her parents, where she lives, how people in her home town talk to and about her and most of all how her illness impacts almost every part of her life. But once the heroine leaves her hometown and moves to Paris and discovers that she will make her dream come true and will become a musketeer the tone of the book changes and it becomes this addictive adventure story in the time of the French kings.
In a lot of ways the elements of the stories about the three musketeers we know are still there. Our heroine loses her father, becomes the fourth musketeer in an all women squad and is tasked with saving the King of France from death. However, since our heroine is a woman the way to deal with all these problems is a little different. I love how the author found a way to show us fierce and brave women without losing touch with the time period and position of women at the time.
And although in a way this book is about four female musketeers trying to find out who's plotting to kill the King, this book is even more about one woman learning a lot about herself. Throughout the book our heroine is confronted with her limits, her strengths, her emotions, her weaknesses, her fears, her anger and her willpower. And I love how that also means that she's slowly learning that she's still worthy, lovable and worth fighting for and with.
I want, and most of all need, more books like this!
The book takes its time to introduce us to our heroine. We get to know her parents, where she lives, how people in her home town talk to and about her and most of all how her illness impacts almost every part of her life. But once the heroine leaves her hometown and moves to Paris and discovers that she will make her dream come true and will become a musketeer the tone of the book changes and it becomes this addictive adventure story in the time of the French kings.
In a lot of ways the elements of the stories about the three musketeers we know are still there. Our heroine loses her father, becomes the fourth musketeer in an all women squad and is tasked with saving the King of France from death. However, since our heroine is a woman the way to deal with all these problems is a little different. I love how the author found a way to show us fierce and brave women without losing touch with the time period and position of women at the time.
And although in a way this book is about four female musketeers trying to find out who's plotting to kill the King, this book is even more about one woman learning a lot about herself. Throughout the book our heroine is confronted with her limits, her strengths, her emotions, her weaknesses, her fears, her anger and her willpower. And I love how that also means that she's slowly learning that she's still worthy, lovable and worth fighting for and with.
I want, and most of all need, more books like this!