All Of Us Villains Books in Order

All of Us Villains is built around a premise that is simple and nasty in the best way. Every generation in the remote city of Ilvernath, seven old families must each name a teenage champion for a death tournament. The winner's family gets control of high magick, the rarest and most powerful magic in the world, for the next twenty years. By the time the story opens, that brutal tradition has already shaped every part of local life.

What makes this duology feel different is that the secret is no longer secret. A tell-all book has exposed the tournament to the wider world, so the new champions step into the arena under cameras, gossip, and public pressure that older generations never had to face. Ilvernath becomes both cursed battleground and media circus. The series also mixes ancient family bargains with a more modern magical world, where spells can be stored, traded, and weaponized.

The books do not follow just one hero. Instead, the story rotates through several champions, especially Alistair Lowe, Isobel Macaslan, Gavin Grieve, and Briony Thorburn. That structure is a big part of the appeal because each teenager comes into the tournament with different family baggage, different survival instincts, and different ideas about whether the whole system should be preserved or burned down.

Nobody gets to stay simple for long.

Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman lean hard into morally gray choices. The Lowes have the town's villain reputation. The Thorburns have the hero image. Other families carry their own myths, resentments, and secrets. The fun of the series is watching those labels crack. Characters who seem ruthless can be frightened, loyal, or manipulated. Characters who look righteous can be ambitious, selfish, or just as dangerous.

The second book, All of Our Demise, pushes the idea even further once the tournament itself starts breaking apart. The boundaries between arena and town begin to fail, alliances shift, and the surviving champions are forced to decide whether ending the curse is worth the cost. The stakes get bigger, but the real tension still comes from the same question: what happens when children inherit a story written in blood and are told to finish it?

This is a duology for readers who like dark fantasy with sharp character drama. The violence matters, but so do family expectations, buried tenderness, and the fear of becoming the role everyone has already assigned you. Start with All of Us Villains and keep going straight into All of Our Demise. These books are fast, tense, and very interested in what power does to people long before they ever touch it.