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The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

61 reviews

02larasofia02's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

flowerparrish's review

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I have wanted this book desperately since 2016 and it lived up to every hope of what it could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Medical content, Trafficking, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

charles_rowland's review

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.5

jean moreau i would give you the world but you don’t deserve that burden 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

lara11209's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

unicorn3's review

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

Wow... I just finished the book and it's the aftg series feeling once again with Nora's easy to read writing style, I really enjoyed it!
It was great to get more insight in another great team (The Trojans) and more into this cult like (The Ravens) after seeing our favorite Foxes in the main series.
The first 100 pages play around the same time of "The Kings Men" (third and last book in the aftg series... If these books aren't counted to the series as well) and after that take their own story in a full go, nothing much happens, we go more with Jean's inner turmoil, but for me that's enough to make an interesting book. I cannot wait for the second part of the series, interested in how the end of this one will play out. How will Jean's first year as a non-Raven go?

Nora did, once again, real good work in creating amazing characters you just want to get to know more! The story itself, the writing and all aren't that good, but somehow she still manages to write an amazing story, I don't know how, but I love her for this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Eating disorder, Medical content, and Stalking

finiteworlds's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child death and Confinement

astellarjay's review

challenging dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Nothing about the way I rate these books is objective. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

what_the_puck's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

allforevermore's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Can I give more than 5 stars? Cause if I could I would because it's what this book deserves. I put those 5 stars when it showed up because I knew, I just knew, it was going to be good and I WAS RIGHT!!
My heart and soul are so broken, it took me two whole days to read it because I kept taking breaks to cry and try my best to deal with what was going on.
I'm so proud of Jean, he went through so much even as a little kid, he suffered so much yet, somehow, he found the strength to wake up and deal with another day, another torture, another practice. He never deserve any of that. I wish I could protect him and give him every that's good in life.

Thank you Nora, thank you for making this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Abandonment

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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

5.0

♡ Jean Healing

♡ So Many Queer Characters

♡ Jeremy Being an Absolute Sweetheart

Everything about this book was fucking amazing!!  And the fact Nora had her sister design the cover again was so awesome.  While yes, a lot of this book was sad and filled with all the things Jean had to deal with—or at least most of the things he had to deal with, there was healing, a glimpse of hope for him and oh my god, if he doesn’t get the happiest of endings I will riot. 

Jeremy, the sunshine court himself was so wholesome.  His patients with Jean was written so lovely.  Their friendship (that hopefully is something more later) is so wonderful.  Jeremy doesn’t push Jean but doesn’t let him get away with his old methods of self-comfort.  There is a lot of work for Jean to do as far as getting fid of the Raven mentality/lifestyle but it’s so nice to see the start of healing with the shit hand of life he was dealt.  All the moments were Cat was teaching Jean how to cook and the forehead kisses were everything.  And Wymack being the stubborn person he can be, helping Jean while he recovers, like bro—I love Wymack so much 😭 he treated Jean as if he were one of his foxes.

Kevin being called out for his fanboy behavior for the USC Trojans had be laughing so much.  Neil being an absolute icon with his attitude problem still intact, and his ability to be a little shit to all authority figures was hilarious to read.  I was also really happy about Jean and Renee’s friendship, it was perfect.

Overall, I adored this book.  Reading about all the old characters again was so nice and the new characters were wonderful (a few got what they deserved, they know who they are) but USC is going to be a wonderful place to Jean to get the life he finally deserves.  And I’m so happy for him.

Spice Level: n/a

Angst Level: 💧💧💧💧💧 (5/5)

POV: Duel, Third Person

Release Date: 13, April 2024

Rep: Bisexual(Main Character), Gay, Queer (Main and Side Characters), Lesbian (Side Characters), Trans (Side Character), Non-Binary (Side Character), Poly (Side Characters), LGBTQIA+ (Main and Side Characters, BIPOC (Side Characters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Gore, Homophobia, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, and Suicide attempt