Tania, for instance, shares many similarities with D’Artagnan. Instead of directly mapping the personalities of adult men onto young women, I took an abstract approach to character, one that I applied differently depending on the Musketeer. When I set out to write a retelling/reimagining of The Three Musketeers with teenage girls as the main characters, I knew that I would have my work cut out for me: I wanted to make sure that I honoured the original characters while also doing justice to my own Musketeers. Interview One For All is loosely inspired by the Three Musketeers – do you think Tania shares any traits with the original Dumas characters? 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. He’s kind, charming, and breathlessly attractive-and he might have information about what really happened to her father. But then she meets Étienne, her first target in uncovering a potential assassination plot. With her newfound sisters at her side, Tania feels for the first time like she has a purpose, like she belongs. And they don’t shy away from a swordfight. 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. But L’Académie des Mariées, Tania realizes, is no finishing school. His dying wish? For Tania to attend finishing school. Then Papa is brutally, mysteriously murdered. But Tania wants to be strong, independent, a fencer like her father – a former Musketeer and her greatest champion. 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. Tania de Batz is most herself with a sword in her hand.
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