I buddy read this with my heart and my damn soul. I loved so many elements of it and although the overall components helped boost my love for the characters - I still felt like it ran short in some facets. The Raven King was by far better than it's predecessor. This review has been a long time coming, it feels like I've been trying to reading this book for the longest time, and then I fell sick for a while so I couldn't actually function properly. They were worth every cut and bruise and scream.” And with a squad you will love.“He was their family. It was an easy read, but with dept as well. Uncommonly, the series only gets better from here, and at the end of the first book, it was pretty exciting already. I love “The Foxhole Court” and its characters anyway, with flaws and all. I will be the first to admit that this book got some problems, much like the characters in it. “Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.” A lot like the raven cycle, this book has the notion of a coming romance, but is too busy that it is of importance. There is definitely enough drama to go around anyway. I found this really refreshing? There is a lot going on with backstories, trying to get these fucked up teens on a straight path and be sort of friends/teammates. There is no romance in this book, for reasons you will realize if reading the rest of the series. Nothing better than jealousy and threats to motivate you. Fictional sport or not, this book has an authentic i-will-do-anything-to-be-the-best feel and passion, which I like. We already have Quidditch, so why not Exy. It seems like making up a sport was preferable in how certain rules and the whole sports culture had to be different from what we know, for this book to be what it is. Exy is completely fictional, but seems like a mix between lacrosse and… Rugby, perhaps? A more violent twist to the sport anyway. His decision to turn the Foxhole Court into a halfway house of sorts was nice in theory, but it meant his players were fractured isolationists who couldn’t get along long enough to get through a game.”Īnd yes… this is a sports book about a sport that does not exists outside of “The foxhole court”s cover. “The Palmetto State University Foxes were a team of talented rejects and junkies because Wymack only recruited athletes from broken homes. That is: except for Andrew, because he is an uncaring, high (and protective) jerk. “The foxhole court” family is not perfect they are a bunch of misfits thrown together with only one common goal: to be champions & make people stop laughing at their Exy team. It is about the importance of support and friends, how they can change your life and you change theirs. This is a book about family, but not only the biological one. So is the rest of the series, which I read in less than twenty-four hours. But do not give up on it, because the rest of the book is completely worth it. Probably the first two chapters, or even longer. Sports! Friends forming a family! Dramatic misfits! Such cute (with that I mean hardcore) characters!įirst, let us get this out of the way: this book sucks the first pages. Maybe he’s finally found someone and something worth fighting for. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. One of Neil’s new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can’t walk away from him a second time. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.īut Neil’s not the only one with secrets on the team. The team is high profile and he doesn’t need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. He’s short, he’s fast, he’s got a ton of potential-and he’s the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. Genre: Young Adult – lgbt characters (gay and demisexual character(s)). So enjoy my unfiltered thoughts from seventeen-year-old me about this book series I truly still love I wrote a review after reading this book series for the first time in 2016, and found it on goodreads after rereading this series again.
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