#gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers

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– Lillie Lainoff, One for All

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Sisterhood of the Stab Stab

Both teenage asthmatic me and 20-year-old newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis me desperately needed this book, and I am so, so grateful that 30-year-old me had the chance to read it so I can point kids and peers who might need this book as badly as I did toward it. This book has just stunningly well-done chronic illness (specifically POTs) representation, and some really excellent LGBTQ+ representation. It's also rare I get in on preorder goodies, but when I saw how beautiful these character cards were, I couldn't resist! Let's talk One for All.

The tagline for this book is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, but honestly the chronic illness representation is what made this book so impactful for me. I'm not a POTsie, but I knew exactly how the crushing fatigue, the constant fight against your own body, and the cruel responses of people around you feel when you have hard physical limits.

Tania is a lovely character to follow and share a headspace with throughout the book. Her complex relationships with her parents, her peers, her musketeer mentor, and her fellow lady musketeers are nuanced and always interesting. As a former dancer (the RA didn't actually kill that activity for me, that was the pandemic), I also strongly identified with Tania's insistence on honing her skills in her chosen sport--fencing--to the fullest extent of her abilities, and accommodating the very real physical limitations her body has rather than pushing to try to be like fencers without POTs. The space that Tania and the other musketeers make to accommodate the POTs rather than trying to magically fix it, ignore it, or insist that Tania could somehow "overcome" it is absolutely incredible. I would love for that accommodation to be the norm rather than the vanishingly rare exception.

Tania is not the only kickass character, however. Our other three lady musketeers are full, round characters who grow with Tania even as they prove that they will never ever let her fall. Each of our girls has a clear character all her own, and they mesh with and bup up against each other's personalities in ways that were never not a treat to see.

Simply put, I adore this book and cannot say enough good things about it. I'm hopeful that we get more stories with Tania and the rest of the sisterhood of the stab stab.

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'One For All'- Lainoff, Lillie

Disability Rep: POTS | Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Genre: Historical Fiction, Retelling, Fantasy, Romance

Age: Young Adult

Setting: 17th Century France

Additional Rep: Lebsian SC, Demi-Bisexual SC, Asexual SC

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Review: One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Review: One for All by Lillie Lainoff

One for AllLillie LainoffFarrar, Strauss and GirouxPublished March 8, 2022 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About One for All An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand. Everyone in town thinks her near-constant…

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Disability Pride Month

Did you know July is actually Disability Pride? And did yall know I'm Disabled? I have multiple Invisible Disabilities. Meaning that if you met me in real life on any regular day, there is a good chance you would have no idea that I can't remember the last time I wasn't in pain. How we probably have very different definitions of the word exhausted. So I hope everyone will take the chance to just do a little something for the month of July to increase your own awareness. Especially if you are able-bodied. Look into ablism, learn about the Spoon Theory if you don't already know it. (Highly recommend that one! Would be willing to talk about it with yall if you have any questions!) Try to be a little more conscious of how you never know what someone is dealing with and don't judge someone for using mobility aids, even if it doesn't look like they should need it. Or "you don't look sick." Or for someone who parks in a handicap spot but isn't in a wheel chair. And for anyone else who is disabled here, I hope you take pride in who you are this month too. Every part of you! And I'm willing to talk about it if anyone wants to 😊💜

And on that note! I'm actually here to celebrate just a bit with yall in my usual way when I make posts not about BTS. By sharing books!! So here are some books that I've throughly enjoyed that have Disability Representation in them!!

1. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Fantasy thieving crew heist novel. Rep includes Chronic Pain, Mobility Aid Use (cane), PTSD, Dyslexia and Addiction. It also is now a Netflix show! You should read the books though!

2. Sick Kids In Love by Hannah Moskowitz

YA Contemporary Romance novel. Rep includes Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gaucher disease. (Made me cry in a good way!)

3. One For All By Lillie Lainoff

Historical gender bent three musketeers Retelling. Rep for POTS.

4. Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Romance fiction, rep for fibromyalgia

5. All the Right Reasons by Bethany Mangle

YA Contemporary Romance. Rep includes EDS. (Haven't read this one yet, but on my TBR!)

6. The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd Jones

YA Horror Paranormal Fantasy with Zombies. Rep for Chronic Pain

7. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy as a Mecha Retelling of the rise of the Chinese Empress Wu Zetian. Rep includes Cane and Wheelchair usage.

Thanks for letting me share! Happy July Everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! And if you have any good recs for me, please feel free to share them as well!

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a mostly queer list of 2022 book releases that im excited for

kiss & tell by adib khorram

about the openly gay member of a hit boy band navigating fame, breakups, and being a queer role model

icebreaker by a.l. graziadei

about two rival hockey players battling to be the top draft pick & maybe falling in love

(im currently reading the ARC of this book and really enjoying it!)

love somebody by rachel roasek

a rom-com about a popular high-school girl, her ex-boyfriend-turned-best-friend, and the girl they both fall for

portrait of a thief by grace d. li

a heist novel that follows chinese-americans stealing back looted art. about diaspora, unlikely friendships, the colonization of art, and the complexity of identity

 we deserve monuments by jas hammonds 

a biracial teen moves to small-town Georgia to live with her estranged grandmother and becomes entangled in a web of family secrets, the town's racist history, and her growing feelings for the girl next door

she gets the girl by rachael lippincott & alyson derrick  two college freshmen set out to help each other get the girl of their dreams. but as they work together, they begin to fall for each other. also the authors are a married couple 💖💗💘💗💖💖💗 dauntless by elisa a. bonnin

in this sapphic, philipines-inspired fantasy, a teenage girl must bring together two broken worlds to save her nation

only a monster by vanessa len

in this urban fantasy, there are monstrous families that have powers gained by stealing life from humans. joan is half-monster, and when the boy she loves turns out to be a monster slayer, she is forced to go on the run with the heir to a monster family that hates her own

flip the script by lyla lee

about a bi girl starring in a kdrama and falling for her on-screen rival!! 

twice as perfect by louisa onomé

a nigerian-canadian girl deals with her estranged brother and the planning for her cousin's Crazy Rich Asians-style Nigerian wedding

one for all by lillie lainoff

a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love

hell followed with us by andrew joseph white

post-apocalyptic horror about a trans boy escaping from the cult that unleashed Armageddon and teams up with a queer youth centre fighting for survival

gloria buenrostro is not my girlfriend by brandon hoàng

about a Vietnamese American boy who befriends the most beautiful girl in school to gain acceptance from his peers. when she finds out, he’s forced to confront how he's allowed his friends' toxic masculinity sabotage the best friendship he's ever had

boys i know by anna gracia

a high school senior navigates messy boys and messier relationships in this look into the overlap of asian american identity and teen sexuality

the loophole by naz kutub

follows a queer Indian-Muslim boy travelling the world for a second chance at love after a magical heiress grants him three wishes

home field advantage by dahlia adler

sapphic romance between the school’s newest quarterback and the aspiring captain of the cheerleading squad

ophelia after all by racquel marie

follows a biracial, self described “boy crazy” teenage girl who starts to question her sexuality during prom season

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 An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.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?Acad?mie des Mari?es, 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

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Blog Tour and Arc Review: One For All by Lillie Lainoff

Welcome to my stop on the One For All book tour with Colored Pages Tours. (This blog tour is also posted on my Wordpress book blog Whimsical Dragonette.)

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TITLE: One For All AUTHOR: Lillie Lainoff PUBLISHER: Feiwel & Friends RELEASE DATE: March 8, 2022 PAGES: 400 GENRES: Young Adult Historical Fantasy

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Synopsis:

An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets, sisterhood, and self-love.

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 where her loyalties lie…or risk losing everything she’s ever wanted.

This debut novel is a fierce, whirlwind adventure about the depth of found family, the strength that goes beyond the body, and the determination it takes to fight for what you love.

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Author Bio:

Lillie Lainoff received her B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing and distinction within the major from Yale University. She currently is studying for her MA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction at the University of East Anglia.

Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry has been featured in The LA Review, The Washington Post Outlook, Today’s Parent, via the Disability Visibility Project, Washington City Paper, and The Yale Daily News, amongst other places. She’s received recognition from Glimmer Train and The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and is the 2019 Winner of the LA Review Literary Award for Short Fiction. She was a featured Rooted in Rights disability activist, and is the founder of Disabled Kidlit Writers (FB).

As an undergraduate, Lillie was a member of Yale’s Varsity Fencing team. As a senior, she was one of the first physically disabled athletes to individually qualify for any NCAA Championship event, and helped her team to an end-of-season 10th place ranking by the National Coaches Poll. She still fences competitively and coaches. In 2017, she was named a recipient of the inaugural Spirit of Sport award by the US Fencing Association.

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My Review:

★★★★★

I loved this book. I mean, I went into it knowing I would because, genderbent Musketeers? Everything I ever wanted. And I did love it for that, but mostly for Tania. She is *such* a great MC, not least of which because she lives with debilitating chronic illness AND IS ALSO a great fencer and a Musketeer. This book does an absolutely amazing job driving home the point that yes, you can be disabled AND competent -- AND that competence *does not make you any less disabled.* This is maybe the only book I've read that makes such a clear point of this. Disability does not equal incompetence. Competence does not equal a lack of disability. They can both be true. Tania's illness is never far from her. She never takes a breath free of the dizziness, and we never lose sight of her struggles or her determination. Her illness is threaded through every scene, every moment of the story -- but it does not define the story, and it does not define her. It does not truly limit her, not in any way that matters or that she and her sisters in arms cannot find a way to overcome. Aside from that, I love the way Tania and her sisters in arms grow closer and come to trust and rely on one another. I love that they are trained and trusted to go on missions to protect the king, even if they are denied official entry into the Musketeers. I love that they use every means at their disposal to complete their missions -- and are also relatable teen girls. Another thing I absolutely love is that the four girls' names are clearly related to the original Three Musketeers (and D'artagnan), and that they also share some of the same personality traits as their namesakes. It's such a clever and subtle nod to the original. I love how Tania's father steadfastly believes in her and teaches her to fence despite her mother's worries and despite her illness. And that his lessons give her tools to combat the dizziness she feels. I also love the musing about others like her, reduced to begging and being disbelieved. About how there are so many words for disbelief that a girl can be having the physical symptoms she complains of. About how it's the poor who suffer during a regime change. This book has a lot of really powerful passages that hit hard and don't shy away from ugly truths. And yet it still manages to be fun and empowering. Empowering is actually a great word to describe how I feel about this book. As someone with chronic illnesses myself, I really deeply felt Tania's frustrations and rage at being disbelieved, mocked, treated like a delicate object, not seen. Her journey is uplifting and empowering and I am so glad that I read it. And even more, I'm so glad Lillie Lainoff wrote it, that it will be available to future "sick girls" who secretly yearn to be Musketeers and save themselves for a change. I also had the chance to listen to the audio arc and I have to say that I wish the narrator had done more justice to this story. She spoke at a reasonable speed but left long pauses between sentences sometimes -- maybe between paragraphs? -- which made it difficult to pay attention no matter what speed I tried. She also didn't really distinguish very much between character voices which made it difficult to follow different speakers. She also had a little bit of a monotone quality to her performance which meant my mind tended to wander while listening. *Thanks to NetGalley, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Recorded Books, Colored Pages Blog Tours, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for providing an e-arc and audio arc for review.

Favorite Quotes:

When was the last time we’d touched when she wasn’t providing support for my wavering legs? When was the last time she’d reached for me and it wasn’t because I needed help?

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Now, whenever I had a good day, people were quick to assume I felt better. It was hard enough living with the knowledge that if I felt healthy, it didn’t mean the next day would be the same. Being reminded of that fact by others was a painfully close second.

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Men wanted quiet wives, quiet wives with quiet nervous habits. Not even our bad traits, our unconscious traits, belonged to us.

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If I’d known the directions, if I could’ve drawn her a map, I would have done it in an instant. I would have ripped up the precious books in my room for paper and used my tears for ink.

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This Paris was nothing like the Paris of my hazy dreams.


It was loud and people-full and the smell stuck to the inside of my nose and grime was everywhere and oh, it was beautiful.

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We are not the ones who are written into history. We are the ones who ensure history exists to be written.

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But the party was still a crashing wave that broke at my ankles, the clash of music against voices, against laughter, against clinking glasses and the susurrus of shoes against marble.

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And even though dizziness lingered at the edges of my vision, even though my toes were clenched tight within my slippers, I was gliding across the smooth surface of a stream. It was just a bout without the swords — a bout that I would win.

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…all those years of doing my best to pretend nothing was wrong had stitched a permanent mark into my skin.

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That’s what Musketeers did. Earned their wounds.

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I wasn’t any less dizzy than before, any less sick. But my legs were stronger. They were fighting for me. All the same symptoms, but no fainting.

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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.

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It was just like what Papa told me. Yes, I was dizzy; yes, his body swayed before me like the rocking of a ship; yes, my legs felt as if they’d collapse at any moment. But I knew the rhythm of this bout. It was in my bones, in the throb of my wounded arm, in the beat of my heart.

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Being sick meant, at any moment, the people I cared about could decide I wasn’t worth the trouble I put them through.

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The entries were tedious. Descriptions of medical theory, the four humors, hypochondria, so many different words and entries for women in pain that wasn’t believed.

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“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.”

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“Fight me!” I shouted. “I am not the fragile, breakable thing you’d have me be. I am a Musketeer.”

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One for All by Lillie Lainoff is the gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers that I have been waiting for. With its action-packed plot and compelling cast of characters, this one lived up to all of my expectations. The audiobook is equally well done, and I had no issues keep up with the fast-moving plot. This is a meaningful story of sisterhood and sword fights that fans of historical fiction will love.

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Top 5 (anticipated reads for Jan-Mar 2022) Tuesday

Top 5 (anticipated reads for Jan-Mar 2022) Tuesday

I’m so glad Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads capped it to Jan-March because WOW there’s so many books coming out! Even in these three months! Better go see which books she’s looking at to add MORE books to your tbr! 📚🚀📚 One For All by Lillie Lainoff (GR/SG) – An OwnVoices, gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, in which a girl with a chronic illness trains as a Musketeer and uncovers secrets,…

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[January posting meme] Travel reads/Most fun book of 2016: Livia Day/Tansy Rayner Roberts

I am late, but this is on a deadline, so I will do it out of order. skygiants: I am going to be traveling a ridiculous amount this month and therefore if you felt like posting about good/fluffy plane/travel reads sometime in between January 14 and 19 I would be much obliged. --which conveniently turns out to cross over with: rachelmanija: The most fun books you read in the last year or so. Not the ones of the highest literary value or the deepest explorations of a serious issue. The ones that were the most entertaining, made you the most happy, and/or weren't even good at all but were highly amusingly cracktastic. That sort of thing. I have read all sorts of things traveling, of course, depending on mood or what I was reading when I started, but usually for plane flights or long train trips, I like mysteries or romances, things that are fun and fast-paced and gripping and whose prose has a rhythm that doesn't clash with the rhythms of transportation. (No, but seriously, trying to read Bleak House on a cross-continental train for real gave me a headache. And when I'm sitting still, I even like Bleak House!) The Cafe La Femme mysteries by Livia Day (aka Tansy Rayner Roberts) work perfectly for me for this purpose. A Trifle Dead, Drowned Vanilla, and novella The Blackmail Blend are set in Hobart, Tasmania, and are confections as delightful as their names. Tabitha Darling owns a cafe and loves pastries, pretty frocks, and gossip. She does not love the cops who frequent her cafe and complain about how she's eased out traditional greasy spoon fare for really very delicious-sounding fusion fare -- not because they complain, but because they are keeping a close eye on her for the sake of her father, who used to be chief of police, and her mother, who used to make the police commissary a place where the food was actually good. (Dad ran off with a younger woman, and Mom quit and went off to meditate in the country. Tabitha is not happy with Dad.) The mysteries can be predictable, but the real pleasure of the books is the world-building: the lively sense of the local Hobart arts and foodie scenes, the soul-calming love of the mountains in the distance, and the small-town intimacy which means Tabitha seems to have dated half the people involved in the case during college. It is also very thoroughly seen through the female gaze, so much so that I sometimes got impatient with Tabitha evaluating the hotness of every guy who walked through the door. Tabitha is clearly attracted to many more people in daily life than I am. That's making it sound like these are books very focused on men, whereas they're books with lots of relationships between women where the protagonist happens to be very straight. There are indeed queer and non-gender-normative characters. My favorite is probably the granny whose art consistents of obscene pastry, but I am also fond of Tabitha's gorgeous frenemy and her extremely grumpy cafe assistant who makes excellent cappuccino. Also, I want to eat every dish Tabitha makes in the entire book. She includes recipes. The most fun book I read in 2016 was also by Rayner Roberts: Musketeer Space, a gender-swapped, race-bent, everybody's pansexual, space opera retelling of The Three Musketeers. It was originally published as a serial on Rayner Roberts' blog, where you can still read it for free. I am not sure what more to say to people who aren't sold by "The Three Musketeers IN SPACE!!!", honestly, but Dana D'Artagnan and her friends are a delight and the background worldbuilding is a delight and there's also a companion novella "Joyeux", which is, oddly enough, probably best read between parts one and two of the novel. Rayner Roberts has a way of writing brave rash women and cynical self-destructive men that feels very much like the fannish id in the very best way. comments Read more.