MULTIMEDIA|LOLA DAVIS-BIGGS
All of Us Villains and All of our Demis make up one of the most amazing duology I have ever read. It seems like recently I have been having a lucky streak with incredible series. First was the Six of Crows and now All of Us villains.
Dark, gray cobbled streets, ancient history woven through every corner and alley, seven family’s and a secret curse drenched in blood. For 800 hundred years a curse of seven family’s repeats every twenty years, as a champion from each of the family’s fights to the death to have control of the little and rare high magic. After 800 years the secret is finally out there, in an expose dripping with gossip and dark horrifying truths the gory brutal fight to death fought by seven teenagers is all the world can talk about. The disturbing and deep red tale painted by Amanda Foody and Charlie Lyn Herman not only is a beautiful written story with cunning dialogue and poetic words but a grotesquely accurate metaphor for the misgivings of society. Many stand by reading gossip and crude articles about the seven teens about to fight to their death, ignoring the horrors they are about to face and instead chirping shallow nonsense about what outfit the champions are wearing. All chit chat awaiting the names of the slaughter seven, the nickname the media came up with for the seven chosen to fight. Everyone sits on the edge of their seat waiting to see which of the seven teens will survive the completion walking back into town with the blood of six others on their hands. The story is gushing with beautiful metaphors telling a deviously dark and terrible story coated in humor as one would cote a pill in jam to make it easier to swallow. This year's tournament is special for a second reason as the possibility of breaking the curse arris’s, champions struggle to decide to have hope or fulfill their destiny as the villains that they were born to be.
The second book continues the monochrome and distorted story, further diving into the theme of societies focus on shallowness and sweet stories. The authors use excerpts from the media and the beginning of every chapter. While reporters gossip about the love affair between two champions, the young teens struggle to survive battling against the villain that lies within them and their hearts hopes for happiness. The story ends on a heart crushing and sinking end that had me in tears. The duology of All of Us Villains is spectacular. I have read nothing like it before in my life. As both books follow the perspective of 4 of the 7 champions I had no idea who to root for and was constantly drowning in the bloodied story along with the characters. The perfectly woven magical structure and tail left me daydreaming about the dark Tim burton-esk world every second of the day. I have truly never read such a horrifying and realistic betrayal of human existence, iced with dark humor and finished with incredible scenery and engaging story, the cherry on top. You must read this series, you have no idea the blood curdling story you are missing.
