Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. I don't know, I can't help but thinking the only way this story would make any sense at all is if it was transplanted to a sci-fi prison planet with absentee prison guards.1 The Foxhole Court (All for the Game Book 1) Nora Sakavic Click here if your download doesn"t start automaticallyĢ The Foxhole Court (All for the Game Book 1) Nora Sakavic The Foxhole Court (All for the Game Book 1) Nora Sakavic Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. Plus, everyone but the MCs' stock response to being 'troubled' is to be a violent, amoral sociopath in this, and that's supposed to be 'deep.' Or maybe 'edgy.' Hard to tell, because it really isn't either. This behaviour is supposedly "discouraged," but there is a clearly well-known history of it, the perpetrators are never punished (or, you know, kicked off the team?) Continue to threaten & commit acts of violence on other teammates, drug them, verbally abuse them, etc. Pressure a kid from an abusive background to join them with verbal abuse & threats of violence. A team supposedly created by a coach to give kids from troubled families/backgrounds a chance at creating new lives for themselves is allowed (sometimes encouraged) by the same coach to to the following: Except only one of the players is a star big enough to even have a fan following, so again?īut characterization was the real problem for me. I don't think he's ever even watched one of their games-he comes across less sports fanatic, more fanboy. Antipsychotics do not work at all like this, folks.Īnd for some reason the sports-obsessed main character knows 100% more about the team members' personal lives and troubled pasts than he does about how the team actually functions. not blood tests.-coach completely disengaged from the team's training & not even attempting to have them work together, etc, etc, etc.) as does pretty much everything else. The sports-world works in a way completely out of step with how it does in reality (players carrying weapons on the field, doing drugs & no one trying to stop them-antidoping, anyone? drug tests consist of forcing the kids to disrobe so a doctor can check their arms for track marks, cause apparently arms are the only place IV drugs can be inserted. While this isn't unreadable, it is pretty poorly conceived. I think the reviewer would be better off looking in "nonfiction" for more accurate depictions of life and leave books such as All for the Game to those that have the imaginary capacity to accept a world different from our own. It would be one thing for you to say you found drugs and violence somewhat excessive, but it is another thing entirely to deny her artistic liberty by saying things like "Antipsychotics do not work like this, folks." Well, they could. What's wrong with making an imaginary sport corrupt in other ways?īut EVEN overlooking this fact, the author chose to make her sports world this corrupt. No one wants to address important questions such as CTE even though they affect players of all ages because it is not expedient to their goals. If you tell me "The sports-world works in a way completely out of step with how it does in reality," I put my foot down. Oxford Dictionary describes fiction as "literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people." There are only two types of reviews that get to me: hard-core Christians who didn't "realize" the content of a book was against their faith, and people who criticize fiction for not being realistic enough. I usually let honest negative critiques go - they just don't like the book and they have their reasons. I am only writing this review in response to Feather Qwill.
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