A review by kitsuneru
The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense
  • 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

“i am jean moreau, i have always gotten exactly what i deserve.” 

i saw that nora said this book was sadder than the three books and i thought to myself, “how?”, and those were my famous last words.

it might be sadder than all three previous books combined which is a hard thing to do.

jean’s story is truly heartbreaking. just when you think, “it can’t get worse than this”, it gets worse. the things he had to go through because of riko is heart shattering and inhuman. the worst part is that he truly believes that he deserved everything that happened to him. he didn’t deserve anything he got. 

riko and tetsuji and grayson and zane and those bitches don’t deserve anything and i hope the ones who haven’t met their end, meets their end.

like jean could not catch a break during this book and it made me so upset.

but jean has good people around him now. coach wymack and abby and neil and kevin. coach wymack especially, he cares for jean like he is one of the foxes and it truly warmed my heart so much. even after jean went to cali wymack was still there for him. 

neil. don’t even get me started on that beautiful man. he truly is the best character to ever be created. the way he helped jean. i love you neil. always will.

jeremy. i love this man so much. i’m so excited to see their relationship evolve in the next book. he is truly truly such a kind soul and he cares about jean so much. they have my heart fluttering and melting and screaming already 

i hope that jean can realize that the trojans are his friends and are there for him. i hope jean can heal and trust them all. i hope he finds peace and moves on. i hope he can find happiness. i hope he and jeremy are happy. 

also side note ik they’re probably gonna go against the foxes in the finals and that breaks my heart bc who am i supposed to root for? i will always root for the foxes but i want to see jeremy and jean win. nora this is evil😭

anyway i enjoyed this book so much even though it broke me, the ending gave me hope and i can’t wait for the next book.