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The Sunshine Court

Nora Sakavic

4.51 AVERAGE

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Sunshine Court: ★ ★ ★ ★

Nora Sakavic

Tropes:
– Sports series
– Found family
– Grumpy/sunshine
– Hurt/comfort

“You are Jean Moreau. Your place is here with me, with us. I’m your captain. You’re my partner. We’re supposed to be doing this together, aren’t we? Stop leaving me behind. Look at me.”

God, being back in this world is… a feeling unlike any other. My heart was hurting for Jean the entire book—the things these kids went through at Edgar Allen…
Spoilerthank God Riko is dead, for real.
Spoiler Just so much pain. And the lil glimpses of the Foxes throughout made my heart swell. I just love all these poor, dumb kids so so so much.

The JerJean of it all is EVERYTHING. Jeremy is a ray of sunshine and even though Jean is so prickly and rude and HURT, Jeremy doesn’t give up. He’s the sweetest, most positive angel who wants to help and is always by Jean’s side. I need more of them like I need air!!!!
dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
challenging dark hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jean moreau..... you have bewitched me..... such a beautiful book that's made me tear up multiple times, especially towards the end, making my heart ache for jean. he's definitely my favorite character in aftg next to andrew
dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

8/20/25 4th read through
challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Ok so I actually don’t think anything hurts me more than an aftg book ?? every single character is traumatized deep to their bones and it kills me every time

ESPECIALLY the way Jean was traumatized. He will never outright say what happened to him, but he will give you clues, and that hurts a thousand times more because the way he words it and the way he lets it out specifically is awful omg


SPECIFICALLY ESPECIALLY when Neil is talking to Jean about the bite thing and Jean is like “ha, Drake wasnt a biter then?” BECAUSE WHY ACTUALLY? To the man that cares the most about Andrew and knows exactly what he went through ??


And then the way he was so concerned for Cody and their possible being forced upon was so genuinely sweet


Every single character in these books is just so misunderstood and I feel like you have to understand the human mind and the strange human experience to love these characters. Like if you didn’t read into it and you didn’t look at the way their past influences who they are and the effort they’re making, they’re very hateable characters, and I think that’s the most unique thing about this series and what makes me love it so much

and then Jeremy is just like the best I love the guy so much and I need him to kiss Jean as soon as possible please and thank you