mengzhenreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Death of parent
Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Sexual assault
amberinpieces's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Chronic illness
Minor: Excrement, Grief, Violence, Classism, Murder, Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
thebankofbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Classism, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Misogyny
Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape
bookforthought's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.
Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness
Moderate: Classism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexism
Minor: Murder
shaipanda's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
To start with, this book was just generally too long, too hard to get into, and kinda a slog to finish for me. While I wanted to know what happened I was continuously surprised by how many more pages there were and didn’t have as much interest as I would’ve wanted in finishing it meaning that it took longer to finish than I would’ve liked despite me enjoying the book and wanting to know what happened.
Additionally, while interesting, I didn’t love the way the romance(a) were handled.
I did love the character development and seeing the 4 musketeers together I found that to be really enjoyable.
However, in addition to my other issues with the pacing, length, and love interest(s), I also found the French used to not necessarily detract for me but also didn’t add anything, I found the spy plot line to be incredibly confusing at times, and I think the word dizzy started to become incredibly repetitive.
Overall while I enjoyed the story, this was a fairly middling book for me unfortunately.
Graphic: Death of parent, Chronic illness, and Ableism
Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Death, Bullying, and Blood
emily_mh's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Ableism and Chronic illness
Moderate: Violence, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Classism, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Blood, Death, Excrement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Medical content, Terminal illness, War, and Fire/Fire injury
Major: fainting, dizziness Minor: gambling, menstruationthatbookishwriter23's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
"The three of you made me realize that whatever this dizziness is… well, maybe it’s never been the real problem. It’s horrible and it hurts and it makes me feel fragile in a way I never wanted, but it’s not the thing that tears me apart. The problem, the real problem, is the people who decide I’m unworthy because of it.” -Tania Ch 27, pg. 325
"They may not be the Musketeers I’d imagined. But they were better, because they were mine. And I knew, as I looked at them and saw the cold steely resolve inside me mirrored in their eyes, that I was theirs." Tania, Ch 18, pg. 206
Great med-paced read!
For starters, I loved this book. The sisterhood, mystery, the disability repsentation. This book really put in perspective what it's like to have POTS, at least in one example. It's definitely one of fav books and I'm sad to see it end.🥺
My only wish is that girls' relationship was more stretched out a little. I just felt it all happens so fast. One minute their strangers to Tania, the next she calling them her sisters. However, this did make for a kinda fast medium paced read and over all the girls' relationship was cute. And I like how the book touched briefly on serious subjects like SA and ableism. I also like the message and see Tania slowly accept herself.
I'm very proud of ONE FOR ALL being the first book I ever pre-ordered and hopefully in the future, we can see more of Tania's world. Otherwise, I will definitely be reading more of Lainoff's books as she releases them.
Graphic: Ableism, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Bullying, and Violence
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Sexual assault
turnthepages_nl's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Chronic illness, and Gaslighting
mattyb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Violence, Chronic illness, Grief, and Ableism
Moderate: Bullying, Blood, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Classism
Minor: Alcohol, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
ramunepocky's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Ableism, Death of parent, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Grief and Sexual harassment
Minor: Sexual assault