When I first read the synopsis of One For All, I immediately knew this was a book I just had to read. I was extremely happy when I got an ARC and I’m so happy the book lived up to my very high expectations.

From the very first page I already liked the main character Tania. She is a very strong and inspiring character and I immediately found myself rooting for her. She made this already incredible story even more enjoyable.

The chronic illness representation was so important to me. I don’t have have POTS like Tania does, but I am chronically ill. It was incredible to see someone like Tania. I don’t ever get to see chronic illness represented like this and it was amazing to see.

The sisterhood between the four Musketeers was I think my favorite part of the book. Found family is one of my favorite tropes and I really loved that it was such an important part of the book.

I do have to say though, I did not always understand all the French phrases that were being said because they were not always translated and my French knowledge is very limited.

Overall, despite the slow start, I absolutely fell in love with this book. I cannot wait for it to hit shelves and for everybody to get a chance to read this. Because trust me, you definitely don’t want to miss out on this one!

This novel takes place a generation later than the source material during the reign of Louis the XIV. Athos is now Thea, Aramis Aria, Porthos Portia, and Tania is of course D'Artagnan. Porthos and Aramis's close relationship is kept and transformed into a lesbian one adding the first of two LGBTQIA elements to this retelling. The other is the transformation of the musketeer commander Treville to Madame Treville who states she's never been interested in marriage and what went with it, putting her on the asexual spectrum. However, she's not incapable of love as she's shown to be very caring for her nephew Henri and the girls.

In addition to the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters, Tania is disabled. I love that the main character is disabled. How often have we seen a disabled hero in a novel like this? Never. Which is why the author, who has the same disorder as Tania wrote the novel. Tania and Lillie have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS. According to the notes in the back of the novel, this disorder wasn't identified until 1993. It disproportionately affects woman and girls, who where all to often ignored in the past when they brought their medical concerns to doctors. Tania's struggles not only illustrate what it's like to have POTS, but the struggles disabled women and disabled people in general would have gone through in that time.

The story was the perfect balance between action, adventure, and intrigue as the girls flirt their way to uncovering the assassination plot in the most exclusive balls, duel their opponents on the docks and in pubs, and spy on the nobles of Paris from the streets and garden parties. It also had a healthy dose of sisterhood as the girls vowed to never let Tania fall and accept her disability, and each other. Together with Madame Treville and Henri they become a family, and found family is one of my favorite things.

I give this one Four Lightsabers for it's exciting story, much needed disability representation, and inclusion of lesbian and asexual characters in a classic retelling and historic setting. I'm happy to add this one to my Disability and Chronic Illness Representation book list and can't wait for young girls with POTS to discover it.

I think that for a younger audience, this book is great! The writing is so descriptive and you really root for Tania. She’s an incredible main character who despite her struggles and disorder, is strong, fearless and so inspiring. The only problems I had with this is that it definitely would’ve intrigued me more if I were between 12-17 when I read it just because I’ve read so many edgier books lately and expected the same for this and also that the French phrases were sometimes hard to pick up on. Nonetheless, this is such an exciting story about friendship, feminism, and empowerment that I loved.

What a fantastic way to start off my reading year! I absolutely adored this story and Tania. From the very beginning, Lainoff captures readers with a fierce protagonist that deserves the world. Bringing forth nostalgia from my childhood-obsession of the Three Musketeers mixed with girls with swords, One for All is a fantastic read!

I was so excited about this book because gender bent musketeers with disability rep sounds awesome. Unfortunately the execution just didn’t work for me. We started out fine but things took a turn once we got to the school. The other musketeer ladies were so incredibly cardboard to me, as was the love interest. The character work in this just didn’t do it for me and I wish that more time had been taken to cultivate unique musketeers that I felt like attached to. Unfortunately the book was bland because I couldn’t even tell the difference between side characters.

Thanks to Fierce Reads for the eARC of this book!

This one was really good. I love the female Musketeer aspect and the setting of France. The premise is fascinating and the MC is superb - I loved her disability and how she fought to be as normal as possible - fought to make people see her instead of her illness.

There were a few issues I did have with this book which is why the 4/5. The politics / intrigue was very confusing. It was overwhelming in some instances. Also the beginning was really slow too. Finally, I was a tad bit upset by the outcome because it was so … expected? And frustrating?

But all in all, a solid debut!

I loved everything about One For All. I thought the author did such a great job explaining her disease/illness and I hope everyone reads the notes at the end.

Tania has an illness that no one can really explain. She gets dizzy, has trouble standing at times, and even faints. Her mother tries to hide it so that someone will marry her. Her father helps her work through it. He was a Musketeer and taught Tania how to fence. There were things she would never be able to do and her knew her limits. He trained her and she excelled at it. When Tania's father was killed, a note was left that she was to attend a finishing school to find a husband and settle into society. Tania was fuming, but she wanted to get to Paris to try to solve her father's murder. What she finds at this school is a family. It's not really a finishing school. It's a school for female Musketeers. They are still dressed up and brought into society. But the four girls are taught how to get close to men and find out their secrets. The know that there is a threat to assassinate the King and they must find a way to stop it.

What I loved most about this book was the found family feel. The friendship between the four girls. I loved that Tania started to see herself as strong and capable. She thought people would leave her because of her illness. Her old friend made fun of her. But these girls take her in and help her whenever it's needed.

I just really loved this one and can't wait to read whatever the author writes next.

I gave this book 5 stars. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for my earc.

Warnings for murder, mention of unwanted touching, chronic illness, blood/cuts.

I couldn’t put this book down! Such a gripping musketeers reimagining with a completely new view of the story! I really loved Tania as a MC, she was so fierce and powerful despite battling with overcoming POTS and I think so many people with see themselves in her, and she finally gave the YA genre POTS representation which is so important. While it was a historical fiction it did feel very fantasy esc, especially if you have watched Barbie and the Three Musketeers it has that same vibe. I was super surprised who the killer ended up being and I just think this is such a feminist and empowering story. I can’t wait to pick up whatever Lainoff writes next! Thank you so much Macmillan for sending me an E arc of ONE FOR ALL. It hits shelves March, 8th 2022!

One For All is an interesting retelling of the story of The Three Musketeers involving girl power and sisterhood. The main character, Tania, is a chronically ill girl who is thrust into a world of deceit and regicide where she needs to learn the ways of being a Musketeer in her own right despite all the hurdles that are thrown in her way.

This was a really interesting read for me especially since the main character is chronically ill. It was really interesting to read about an empowered girl like Tania going through the ups and downs of life whilst figuring out what kind of person she wanted to be.

This book didn't really catch my attention. It started very slow and nothing eventful really happened until the last few chapters. The mastermind of the plot to kill the king was also quite obvious to me. It was also hard for me to get attached to any of the characters besides Portia.

Overall, One For All was a nice retelling to the ultimately patriarchal story of The Three Musketeers and I would recommend it to anyone who loves a little mystery with a lot of girlbosses.

Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant dizziness makes her weak, nothing but “a sick girl”; even her mother is desperate to marry her off for security. But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father—a former Musketeer and her greatest champion.

Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. It’s a secret training ground for a new kind of Musketeer: women who are socialites on the surface, but strap daggers under their skirts, seduce men into giving up dangerous secrets, and protect France from downfall. And they don’t shy away from a swordfight.

With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose, like she belongs. But then she meets Étienne, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. He’s kind, charming, and breathlessly attractive—and he might have information about what really happened to her father. Torn between duty and dizzying emotion, Tania will have to lean on her friends, listen to her own body, and decide when.- Goodreads

I really wanted to like this book but it was just too slow for me. I would pick it up and then put it down, pick it up again thinking maybe its me but nope its the book. I liked the idea of female Musketeers. I liked the fact that Tania has a disability and she fights through it to achieve her dreams. I like the relationship she has with her father and I like the dynamics between the other women. The book was just dry and slow.

There isn't much intensity until very late in the book and I don't necessarily mean action but even her father's death didn't bring intense emotions, which was weird considering how much the book focuses on their relationship.

I like the growth that Tania portrays and how she steps out of herself to become a better person. . I love the setting and the world-building; the book was just too slow.

Overall, not a bad read just would like more emotions coming out the characters.

2 Pickles

Lainoff writes about a fierce young woman finding found family amongst her sisters in arms. Lainoff’s prose is gorgeous and impeccably precise. This book is a gift to chronically ill and disabled teenagers who have yet to see their experiences represented on the page. Lainoff balances elements of mystery, romance, and discovering sisterhood while delicately portraying Tania’s grief over her dead father and struggle with internalized ableism. A wonderful read that will leave you rooting for a disabled heroine and craving Lainoff’s stunning prose. Easily a standout Young Adult novel!

Thanks to netgalley for sending me an arc of this book.
One for All achieves what all great retellings do. It keeps the heart of the story while making it accessible and enjoyable for those who may not have read the source material.
Tania de Batz has been treated by the world as most disabled and chronically ill people are, as nothing more than a sick girl. Her father, a retired musketeer, has always encouraged her love of fencing and taught her how to work with her illness. When he dies tragically, in what Tania knows to be more than reported, she travels to Paris to find his killer under the guise of his dying wish: that she attend a renowned finishing school. Upon her arrival she finds that the school she'd been loath to attend is actually a secret training facility for a new generation of female musketeers. All Tania has ever wanted was to have her own version of musketeer family that she grew up hearing stories about and she will fight for it, for her father, and for the king of France.
Being able to see Tania embraced by her sisters in arms, les mousquetaires de la lune, so immediately filled my heart. Seeing both her struggle to deal with how she'd always been treated and to accept that her new family was not like that and would support her and never think her a burden was so amazing. Until today I'd never seen POTS represented in literature and I am so glad that this incredible book is where I get to see that piece of myself. I couldn't put this book down, it was captivating from start to finish. I cannot wait to have this gorgeous book in my hands and in my store.

As soon as I heard about this gender-bent Three Musketeers retelling with an #ownvoices chronically ill (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome--POTS) main character, I knew I had to read it. With the amount of enthusiasm I had for the premise going in, this story had a lot to live up to. And you know what? It absolutely DID!

Everything about this book was well done. The retelling aspects were clever in their balance of incorporating nods to the original while keeping things fresh. I've read a lot of retellings in the past few years, and it has become clear to me that striking this balance is NOT easy to do well. Lainoff does it so, so brilliantly. The main character was compelling and interesting. The mystery was intriguing. There were ballgowns and fight scenes and friendship. (After reading, I looked up the author, as I often do when I'm blown away by a book, and found out she fences competitively and coaches, which makes total sense given how well the fencing scenes were written.)

Wonderful story. If you couldn't tell already, I highly recommend it!

Thank you Macmillan Children's for providing a free advanced e-book in exchange for an honest review. One For all is out March 8, 2022, and is absolutely worth preordering.

Right from page 1, I knew this was going to be a favorite book. And the second I found out Tania has POTS, like me, I mentally squealed to myself about how excited I was. Lainoff did not disappoint. This is a beautiful take on the Three Musketeers story, with fierce sisterhood, a marginalized woman learning her strength, an intriguing mystery, and a lot of badass swordsmanship. I couldn't stop reading! The representation was fantastic but it's only one of many reasons you'll get absorbed in this unique story. Lainoff is a fierce storyteller and writes amazing prose. Also, I'm obsessed with Henri. Big 5/5. We need more books like this!

This is a fantastic book with a perfectly balanced protagonist, one who is strong in spirit even as she is weak in body. While her 'condition' makes her life difficult, she works through it - rather than around it - to accomplish her goals. The setting of pre-Revolutionary France is well-depicted, and I enjoyed the inclusion of French vocabulary. Even without taking French as a foreign language, I was able to understand the gist of certain words and phrases based on their context - without feeling like I was being given a novice lesson in French 101! Or if it was a lesson in the beginning vocabulary of French, it was incredibly well done!

I started this book expecting a tale of adventure and swordplay. I got very little of both of those. While our leading lady Tania does become part of a secret society of female musketeers, regularly practices fencing, and carries a sword with her on every mission, she does very little actual fencing outside of practice. The girls duties involve more spy work that is dependent on them attending parties and seducing men.
Tania has a disability that causes her to be dizzy often and occasionally leads to her passing out. While this was presented as a very limiting problem at the beginning of the book, once she joins the musketeers she is treated as a person not a disability and learns to work around and through it. Still managing to do to her duty and perform admirably despite it. I really liked this part of the story. It was refreshing to see a character with a disability and see her work through it both physically and mentally.
I did find a lot of the spy work and mystery to be slow moving. But there was a twist at the end that was very well done and somewhat made up for the slow middle.

This is a fantastic novel that's perfect for fans of swashbuckling adventures, or people like me who don't even realize they are!

Short but sweet setup: Tania is a chronically ill young woman living in France in 1655. After her father, a retired Musketeer, is murdered she is sent to a "finishing school' so she can become a presentable, MARRIABLE, young woman. PLOT TWIST: IT'S A PRIVATE INSTITUTION FOR FEMALE MUSKETEERS! You. see, the 'new' Musketeers are basically just gun-toting poseurs at this point. So now, Tania and her merry band of Musketeer trainees are looking into an assassination plot, and it mayyyy have something to do with Tania's father's murder.

I really loved the interplay between all of the new Musketeers. They are all very distinctive in their own right and they really do become a great team. The main mystery is done well and the plot twists are perfectly laid out so they are still surprising, but not in a way that feels unrealistic or out of left field. There's also some romance, but it's not the main plot of the book, which I really appreciated.

The one thing I will say: THERE NEEDS TO BE A SEQUEL! I have theories that there might be some Easter eggs laid about the book to support one... and I need to see if my theories are correct!

I actually had to DNF the book. For me, at that moment, was really slow. What I really did like was the representation of a chronic illness.

a wonderful wonderful debut with raw representation of POTS and backstabbing girls. i enjoyed reading this throughout (full rtc!)

I absolutely adored this book. When I heard there was going to be a YA book with own-voices POTS representation, I RAN to request an ARC of this book. And let me tell you, it did not disappoint!

As someone who has POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), I've never seen myself represented anywhere in media, but this book changed that, and I'm so glad that it was excellently written. The author did a great job of showing how POTS affects people in every day life, and how it is a constant source of fatigue, even on a better health day. Tania's symptoms were talked about every day, not just used for dramatic effect or when convenient, which I was thankful for. I loved how Tania was still able to be a strong, successful musketeer despite her illness, and that she found people who supported and cared for her (believe me, it can be hard).

The actual plot itself was interesting, I enjoyed the action and mystery, along with the subplot of romance. The plot twists kept me on edge and very quickly I found that I just couldn't put this book down!

Overall, a great historical gender-bent musketeers retelling with fantastic chronic illness representation. I highly recommend.

Thank you to the author, Lillie Lainoff, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy to review.