3.5 This book wasn't bad. But it didn't quite meet my expectations.
What I really appreciated about One For All was that it centers around a girl with chronic illness (what's now known as POTS I believe) who wants to defy society's gender norms of her era and be a musketeer.
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On paper, I'd love the element of fellow female musketeers banding together, being each others family, sisters in arms. And this is clearly what the book wanted us to feel. However I felt like, to some extent, I can't fully appreciate this found family element as it is practically forced upon them, as a rule, when they meet. They MUST protect each other, they MUST fight for each other. It's a rule of their academy. I much prefer found family when it takes time to settle in and happens more by choice than force.
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I also read on some list that this book was sapphic and went in thinking it would be the main character when it clearly isn't. There is sapphic rec in side characters.
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In the end, I just couldn't quite gel with the vibes as I wanted to. I didn't get to the point where I cared enough about characters or their motives if I'm honest.
It does still remain a good book which I'm sure many others will love.