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The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Neil has been running from his past as long as he can remember and is now all alone. Then he get this chance to move to a school to play his dream sport Exy. But this team is not a regular team, it’s for people who needs a second chance, third chance in life to turn things around.
However, one person in this team has a past with Neil, but he doesn’t seem to remember him and it’s vital that he doesn’t, because then Neil has to leave, he can’t be found (this part gave me some captive prince vibes hahah)
I enjoyed the book and actually couldn’t put it down. I read it in one day. But was it good?? I’m not sure, it was okay haha.
• I actually liked the sports parts a lot!! I don’t like sports irl but it was so fun reading about the practices and games, how the characters developed and struggled.
• the otp for this book feels so wrong to me. I actually thought that the pairing was with another guy haha. I’ve seen fan art but didn’t remember the names, so I knew that the first book probably would build up this romance - and I guessed the wrong guy while reading?? I just can’t see Neil with his otp.
• I just can’t see this group of people as real friends?? Neil met this other group of people later on in the book and THAT feels right to me. The dynamics between the “first friend group” was kinda odd but interesting.
• there is some old slurs and jokes that are NOT okay in this book. And I feel that the story doesn’t try to tell us or learn something from it, it just accepts for example rape jokes as a normal joke? When it could’ve been a teachable moment that tells the readers that ‘no this is wrong’.
• There is this person who has some diagnosis or illness, i don’t know what because the author never specifically tells us. But he takes medicine - and sometimes he stops taking them, and the author and other characters call him “sober”? That is kinda weird? I don’t know if we will have more information about this in the other books, but yeah, what do they mean with sober from his medicine? Not taking your medicine seems really dangerous and to give the narrative that he’s “sober” and better of without them seems weird?? Haha maybe I didn’t understand this part of the book at all.
However, one person in this team has a past with Neil, but he doesn’t seem to remember him and it’s vital that he doesn’t, because then Neil has to leave, he can’t be found (this part gave me some captive prince vibes hahah)
I enjoyed the book and actually couldn’t put it down. I read it in one day. But was it good?? I’m not sure, it was okay haha.
• I actually liked the sports parts a lot!! I don’t like sports irl but it was so fun reading about the practices and games, how the characters developed and struggled.
• the otp for this book feels so wrong to me. I actually thought that the pairing was with another guy haha. I’ve seen fan art but didn’t remember the names, so I knew that the first book probably would build up this romance - and I guessed the wrong guy while reading?? I just can’t see Neil with his otp.
• I just can’t see this group of people as real friends?? Neil met this other group of people later on in the book and THAT feels right to me. The dynamics between the “first friend group” was kinda odd but interesting.
• there is some old slurs and jokes that are NOT okay in this book. And I feel that the story doesn’t try to tell us or learn something from it, it just accepts for example rape jokes as a normal joke? When it could’ve been a teachable moment that tells the readers that ‘no this is wrong’.
• There is this person who has some diagnosis or illness, i don’t know what because the author never specifically tells us. But he takes medicine - and sometimes he stops taking them, and the author and other characters call him “sober”? That is kinda weird? I don’t know if we will have more information about this in the other books, but yeah, what do they mean with sober from his medicine? Not taking your medicine seems really dangerous and to give the narrative that he’s “sober” and better of without them seems weird?? Haha maybe I didn’t understand this part of the book at all.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Suicide
Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, Rape, and Ableism