One of his teammates was somebody Neil knew from his violent past and he appears to have so many issues on his plate that he just does not recognize Neil from several years ago. The problem is that this happens faster than he expected. Neil lets himself be convinced to sign up with the Foxes and play for a while until his past catches up with him. It was the one piece of his childhood he’d never been able to give up”. “Exy was a bastard sport, an evolved sort of lacrosse on a soccer-sized court with the violence of ice hockey, and Neil loved every part of it from its speed to its aggression. The author’s brief explanation of Exy as a mixture of several games known to us also did not help me to see this game as something completely abstract, which was both a good and a bad thing. Exy is a fictional game that is very popular in this world and to be honest, because it is taking place in a world equivalent to ours I could not fully accept it as fictional. The only problem is Neil still loves one thing in his life – Exy. She’d beat him to hell and back if she saw him sitting around moping like that”. He wondered – not for the first time – if his mother was looking down at him. “He glanced up at the sky, but the stars were washed out behind the glare of the stadium lights. He is sarcastic and angry with good reason, but in fact while I can definitely call him a tortured character, there is very little angst in this book. Neil is not your typical angsty teenager. Neil is someone who lived through the violence his father unleashed on him and people around him, so his everyday concern is to survive, run, and never stop in order to survive. What I loved the most in this book are the characters. I have heard that the second book “Ravens king,” which is already out, does have a lot of on-page violence though. The interactions between Foxes definitely had violent undercurrents, but for me it did not go over a line that would disturb me. After I read it I think that while the book is bursting with hints of future violence and we learn about some past violent things which took place in the narrator’s (and some of his teammates’) pasts, there is no graphic violence happening in this book. When we learn that Neil is running from his father who is a mafia Boss (Don, whatever you want to call him), I understood that this book would have a lot of violence. Right now this is a book about a teenager on the run who loves a particular sports game and who gets drafted to play for the most unusual University team in this most unusual game. I have heard that the writer has promised some romance in the last book of the trilogy, but I have not read that comment myself, so I cannot guarantee anything. First and foremost this is not a romance or a love story – *at all*. This is also a most unusual book – which is both a good and a bad thing as far as I am concerned. I have not read a book for a while where I simply fell in love with the raw energy of the writing it almost literally swept me away. Of course whatever she recommends I have to read. However, the book has been sitting in my TBR mountain until recently, when a friend whose tastes coincide with mine about 95 percent of the time highly recommended it.
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I bought (that is, I downloaded since the book is free on Amazon) your book several months ago on the strength of a great review by someone whose tastes are quite close to mine. 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. Sirius B- Reviews / C+ Reviews college sports / coming-of-age 15 Comments REVIEW: The Foxhole Court (All for the Game – book 1) by Nora Sakavic
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