Reviews - The Foxhole Court

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The Foxhole Court

Nora Sakavic

3.86 AVERAGE

orlandoreads's review against another edition

2.5

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

velyssaraptor's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced

liaaaaaaaa's review against another edition

2.0

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helenawf's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Reviewing this book is incredibly difficult. I can only agree with other people, that Nora Sakavic does not seem to know much about drugs, sports or being gay, yet writes about it with the confidence of a straight white man in a class on feminism after watching Barbie (2024) once.
And I cannot help but applaud her for the sheer audacity.
It is obvious that it was self published in the early 2010s: Characters throw around slurs like greetings, and instead of utilising pronouns, characters names are written down thrice within a sentence.
I also want to know why she thought it was a good idea to give so many characters names starting with the same letter. The first third I had a very hard time telling apart Neil and Nicky, Allison and Abby, and Aaron and Andrew.
Despite that, I thought the characters were well written. Most of them are little bitches, but that's fun to read about.
I also think Neil is an entertaining protagonist, who moves the plot forward well.

So, do I objectively think this book is great? Maybe no.
Would I recommend this book to other people? Not without fearing that they will reconsider whether or not my tastes in literature are worth a damn.
Will I continue with the second book? Yes. Absolutely. With great enthusiasm.

zawuh's review against another edition

this is like objectively the worst book ever, I genuinely think there are drugs in this book bc I know this is not good but I literally can’t stop reading it. 5 stars.

averycarl's review against another edition

4.0

this book was!!!!!!! interesting to say the least. i appalled nora for coming up with a seemingly normal concept, an underdog taking a team from the bottom of the ranking back up to the top, and adding her own little twists with it. however! the twists she choose to add were certainly!! something!! i want to see whats going on with her head because i can't imagine someone coming up with the idea of exy, a game that is so vaguely explained that you have to wonder if the author herself knows what shes talking about. but folks it doesn't stop there!! she also decided to add a mafia twist to this! that's right! the japanese mafia is involved and BOY do they love exy for some reason. this book is definitely not what i was expecting from the very short descriptions i saw of it, but i don't think even the longest of summaries could prepare me for this. despite this book being not the best in writing, or plot my God does it make up for it in characters. i loved and hated every single character nora threw at me, and i think that's the most memorable part of this book. i can't wait for the next one.

edit: this is like my fourth reread of this book and i listened to the audiobook instead and can i just sayyyyy i hated the narrators voice. he does not know how to narrate female voices they all sounded the same and the way they sounded was bad. though i will say that perfectly fit within the vibe of the book so i'll let it slide.