Published by Random House
Age Group: Young Adult
Format: Fiction
Genres and Categories: Academia, Magic School, Scotland, Brown Characters, Dark Academia, Dark Fantasy, Deity Characters, Magic Users, Demons, Ghosts, Witches, Mythology: Mixed, Various Magic
Series: Sisters of the Occult #1
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Published on: 19th September 2024
Pages: 384
Disability Representation: Cancer.
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Mourning the sudden death of her sister, Andy Emmerson knows she must come to terms with a life without Violet. But on the day of the funeral Andy is shocked to discover one thing: the person in that casket is not her sister.
Violet is alive.
Convinced her sister's elite boarding school is covering up the truth, Andy enrols at Ravenswood Academy to discover what really happened and find Violet.
The school is as beautiful and haunting as the students within it and Andy learns that it's not just good grades that drives these pupils. Something much darker is at play.
After discovering a cryptic note from her sister, Andy must follow a set of clues to unlock the truth. This will bring her into contact with secret societies, ancient magic, demons and monsters. And a charming senior named Jae Han who has his own reasons for finding out what happened to Violet . . .
Soon Andy realizes the price she must pay to bring her sister home is darker and more dangerous than she ever could have imagined.
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All the Devils Book Review
All the Devils by Catelyn Wilson is one of those books that you know is deeply flawed, yet you become hooked on the story. This reminded me more of the 90s and 00s young adult books where the young woman falls for the dark and morally questionable immortal, except that the author was trying very hard to be modern and kept going around in circles with the girl’s conscience. There are only so many times you can read ‘but I shouldn’t’ thoughts before it gets irritating.
The world-building was interesting, but it could have been developed better. My main issue was that the author has lumped all the mythologies together, rather than picking one or creating their own. That is a very lazy way of building a world.
Inevitably, it was the ongoing mystery of what had actually happened and who was the big bad that kept me hooked, and that is where the strengths of this book lie.
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