Where All of Our Demise really shines are the characters. In this sequel, I appreciated the scope, the themes, and the action. There’s this real sense of danger and sacrifice which I don’t see as much as I’d like. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts.
Summary
For the first time in this ancient, bloodstained story, the tournament is breaking. The boundaries between the city of Ilvernath and the arena have fallen. Reporters swarm the historic battlegrounds. A dead boy now lives again. And a new champion has entered the fray, one who seeks to break the curse for good… no matter how many lives are sacrificed in the process.
As the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended.
Long-held alliances will be severed. Hearts will break. Lives will end. Because a tale as wicked as this one was never destined for happily ever after.
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
In All of Our Demise, our favorites are back again fighting for their lives. Fighting for their futures and forced to make alliances. If you are searching for a sequel that is jam packed with action, look no further. There is no loss of momentum as Foody and Herman hit the ground running. Forces, people on the fringes, and betrayal comes together and combines in an explosion. I love the magical games and system in All of Our Demise. It’s a feature I will never get over – this whole curse magic and life magic.
I can’t pick a character I loved most in All of Our Demise. I love a united brother sibling relationship and Al and Henry melt my heart. Give me a bad boy with that one person who makes him soft any day. At the same time, I loved Isabella and Briony’s character development here. But even more so, All of Our Demise takes these characters and puts them through the emotional wringer. They are faced with their demise and the fate of the world in their hands. It’s a sequel that truly sinks into the themes of perception and villainy.
Overall,
Of wondering if we will be made into the villains, the bad guys, the monsters of the story. And how it feels when we aren’t allowed to want a different future. We cannot control how people perceive us, all we can do is create our own ending. Our own choices in a system that keeps trying to tell us who we are or who we should be. I listened to All of Our Demise as an audiobook and Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill were fabulous narrators not only with the accents, but also with conveying the character’s conflicted decisions.
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All of Our Demise is a fantastic sequel to a unique magical series. This sequel develops the themes established before in a meaningful way. The chasing of power and how it’s a cycle that never ends. If you like the idea of a magical system of curses or liked the first, you have to read this one! Find All of Our Demise on Goodreads, Amazon, Indiebound, Bookshop.org, The Book Depository, Libro.fm & Google Play.