All of Us Villains revolves around 4 teenagers mainly. They’re Alistair Lowe, Isobel
Macaslan, Gavin Grieve, and Briony Thorburn. All four teenagers live in a small town called
Ilvernath. Ilvernath is cursed, and the curse is that every 20 years, there will be seven people
from the seven families of Ilvernath that compete in a secret deathly competition for high
magick. However, this year, a book exposing all of the secrets of Ilvernath comes out, and now
the whole world knows about the competition. More pressure is put on the competitors, and
some try to find ways out of it. But in the end, people are sacrificed and lives are put on the line,
and it’s up to these competitors to find a solution.
I liked this book a lot. It was interesting from the start of it, and I loved the whole concept.
I got more Hunger Games vibes from this, considering it was one of those fight-to-death-contest
kind of things. The most compelling aspect about this I think was the plot twists, like the one
about Alistair’s brother and all. Of course, they were a bit predictable, but overall they were fun
to read. I was pretty disappointed that Isobel and Alistair didn’t really get the ending they
deserved at the end, but hopefully it’s there in the second book. I am looking forward to reading
the second book very much, and I would recommend this book to anyone who likes fantasy and
thriller. You also need to be able to endure the gore in this book, because there’s quite a bit of
violence in it.
The way I decided to interpret it, I think the cover is pretty accurate. It shows a face at
the top, and at the bottom, there are two hands with spellrings on them. I think the face is meant
to show Reid MacTavish, who I think is honestly the real villain of the story. He manipulates all
the champions, and in the end, he was the one causing all the problems. The way his hands are
positioned, I would say it would be like a spectating position, and the spellrings are clearly
meant to infer the whole point of the story, or that Reid is just powerful in general.