This next part may be considered spoilery so skip if you don’t want to know - I think the only thing that could have made AOOD better for me, and I feel a savage saying this, is if another champion met their demise earlier on in the novel. The trials to break the curse were amazing and often so tense, yet with the champions surviving each time (until the end) the stakes never felt as high as they could have. Saying this, however, I don’t know who I’d have been ok losing and it didn’t take away at all from my enjoyment of the story. I was very satisfied by the conclusion. I don’t want to say too much and give anything away, but I felt like it was the perfect way to wrap everything up.

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Having devoured All of Us Villains by Christine Herman and Amanda Foody last year, All of Our Demise became one of my most anticipated reads of this year. I was so excited to read it and I’m sad, having finished it, that this duology is now finished. I really enjoyed both books and love the world Herman and Foody created - a dark, twisted, magical spin on The Hunger Games. 4.5 rounded up The epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology that's The Hunger Games with magic. Carry Onby Rainbow Rowell has a lightly similar magic system, at least as far as spell-naming goes. Nuanced, exceptionally well-drawn characters and a carefully considered mythology’ Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 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.All of Our Demise is the epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology. The whole tournament literally had me on the edge of my seat. The plot barrelled along at the perfect pace, having plenty to keep you going but a lot to keep you guessing and rolling with the twists and turns. I loved it all! It took the reader to places I don’t think any of us were expecting but it was done masterfully.

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Like all curses, the tournament had been built within a septogram—a seven-sided star typically drawn on a spellboard, with an ingredient placed at each point and a crystal filled with an enchantment at its center. 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. So they sent you to get answers.” Briony tugged anxiously at a strand of chestnut brown hair that had slipped from her braid. Yesterday’s events at the Champions Pillar have shown the citizens of Ilvernath that this year’s tournament will not be fought safely beyond the Blood Veil.

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However, Briony left out a crucial detail: There was more than one way to break the tournament. She and Finley had begun to dismantle it piece by piece, which guaranteed the survival of the remaining champions after the curse fell. But the tournament could also collapse, taking down all five of them with it. And it was this possible outcome that terrified her. All Of Our Demise absolutely lived up to my expectations. Things aren’t looking great at the start of the book, and the stakes are through the roof. Relationships are the heart of this book, and dynamic between the remaining champions is constantly shifting and changing.

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Briony doesn't want the title of hero, but she finds the title thrust at her anyway as the world outside of Ilvernath begin to hear of what she and the other champions are trying to accomplish, but she finds herself fighting battles from all sides, including her own family. What secrets are the Thorburns hiding? Nuanced, exceptionally well-drawn characters and a carefully considered mythology.” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review As is the same in the first book, our group are at odds, and have been their whole life, due to the nature of the tournament. They were raised by their families knowing it was a kill or be killed situation they were preparing for and how they acted in the tournament was a matter of family reputation. How do you put that aside, if you even can, for the greater good?

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All of Our Demise is the second book in Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman's All of Us Villains duology. It was released on August 30th, 2022.