Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

92 reviews

zabeishumanish's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

No book has ever given me more anxiety than this book.

Check your trigger warnings.

This book is not particularly well written, but it is incredibly captivating. This is one of the more unique, creative, and wholly inventive books I've ever read. I wish this author had had a better editor/editing team, but this will capture your attention from cover to cover.

Everything about this book is crass. There are several very off-color rape jokes and the violence is so casually brutal I was constantly flinching.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Cursing, Blood, Death, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment

rld_8's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

4.5

It’s doesn’t make a ton of sense and there are so many issues with it but I couldn’t stop reading it. I finished it in less than 6 hours and absolutely adored it. Will I come back to it later and be like “why did I like this so much” probably but it was so fun to read and I can’t wait to read the next books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, and Bullying

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

fa1ryts's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, and Suicide

li_reading's review against another edition

0.25

To everyone who told me I needed to finish a series before calling it problematic. I finished it. It got worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Ableism, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Suicide, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape and Self harm

miavlb's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I went into this book knowing nothing, which was probably not the best idea lol. This is my first sports book and I honestly don’t really know how to feel about it. I think the fictional sport, Exy, is very interesting and I wish I had a better understanding of how Exy worked, but that might just be because I don’t understand most sports. The plot revolving around the sport did keep me interested since there was a lot at stake. However, the first half of the book did start out slow. It got more exciting once we got to the first game of the season.
Now the characters…I have very mixed feelings about them. I do feel bad for the main character Neil for going through so much abuse and other traumatic things throughout his life, but he does give me edge lord vibes. The other characters, such as Kevin and Andrew, have also experienced traumatic things in their lives and also give me edgey vibes. I know if I read this as a teenager, during the peak of the tumblr era, I would have ate this up. I know this series is a trilogy, so I believe more character development will happen in the later books if I decide to read them. I do have a slight problem with Nicky’s character. So far he’s the only confirmed gay character, he’s written as sort of predatory toward any good looking man, especially Neil. He even forces Neil to kiss him while Neil is drugged up, which rubbed me the wrong way. I understand the not every character has to be morally good, but having the only confirmed gay character act like that was very concerning. There was also other things that could be very triggering to readers, such as the use of slurs and mentions of suicide, so I advise people to look up trigger warnings before reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Homophobia, Ableism, and Bullying

Minor: Vomit and Suicide

hannahwillacy's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Ableism, Drug abuse, and Addiction

xanthiiii's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Violence, Gore, Mental illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Homophobia, Drug use, Gore, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Addiction, Blood, Cursing, Death, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Vomit

jenny_librarian's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I didn’t know what to expect out of this book, but I definitely didn’t think I’d be as obsessed with it as I was. It’s one of those books I just *had* to keep reading.

It’s much darker than I anticipated. Not gruesome, just dark. There’s a lot of abuse – on and off page – but it didn’t feel as bad as other, less dark books I tried to read.

I don’t think I’d like to see Exy as a sport (I hate the NHL because I find it too violent), but on the context of the book it’s quite interesting.

I’m looking forward to book 2, and trying to figure out how that ship everyone talks about will get to happen (if it’s even canon, cause right now it makes no sense to me that those two could have a romantic relationship).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Mental illness, Addiction, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Vomit

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

A friend censored the particularly violent parts for me, which I appreciate greatly. The sports part made me think of Haikyuu and I’m sure I’ll be just as obsessed with this series as that!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Bullying, Drug use, Medical content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Child abuse, Torture, and Vomit

silver_lining_in_a_book's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail