![]() May the odds be ever in your favor, Neil. THE FOXHOLE COURT went all THE HUNGER GAMES and shit at the end. This must be the worst-regulated sport in the history of ever, because people are allowed to brutalize each other on the court (there's a loophole that allows you to hit people who don't have the ball), and there seem to be ZERO drug tests (hence the partying).Ħ. Like, one of the teams is a front for a mob boss's sinister organization? Lmao, what. I'm still hung up over the whole yakuza angle. These kids must all have F's because they only seem to party and do drugs and never study. I think there was one scene where Neil was studying. Also, for a new adult book that takes place in a college, nobody cracks open a book. This book does that with one of his characters, and his on-again, off-again behavior is accepted as a sort of "in joke" among his teammates, and his coach even passively encourages him to go off his meds for games because it makes him play better, or some ridiculous BS like that.Ĥ. I posted a status update a while back about how I didn't like books that glamorized going off your meds as this wild and crazy journey. Drug use and mental health are represented pretty badly here. "Retard" is used several time, and so is "cripple." I'd already written this group off as a bunch of psychos, so I didn't really care what they said and I'm able to compartmentalize as a reader, but keep in mind if you're sensitive, the language is there.ģ. If you read this book and gave it five stars, you are never allowed to speak badly of bodice rippers ever again, because THE FOXHOLE COURT runs the gamut of ablelist and homophobic slurs. I think this is the set-up for a romance that happens later but there isn't really any strong UST to make me motivated to care.Ģ. This is labeled as a romance, but there is basically no romance. By the end of the book, I feel like my face looked like this: o_oĪlso, for some reason, the yakuza is involved? Whaaaat.ġ. They are led by a coach who sees nothing wrong with enabling these bad behaviors and even gives them alcohol. Their leader is a classic tsundere who hides his ~complex emotions~ under a shield of physical aggression and rage because he's so ~damaged~. All of the "strong" women on the team get overly physical and have bad tempers. The team is basically comprised by a bunch of psychos, one of whom wields a knife (which he uses to threaten people with) and does a copious amount of drugs. even though he's kind of an ungrateful, shady jerk about it. Clearly, he hasn't done a good enough job about covering his tracks because he ends up getting drafted to the Palmetto State Foxes Exy team. ![]() The main character, Neil, is good at Exy. THE FOXHOLE COURT revolves around a made-up sport called "Exy" that seems to be a cross between lacrosse and soccer. Exciting things! Scandalous things! And THE FOXHOLE COURT doesn't really have a whole lot going on for a book that's supposed to be #SoEdgyYouGuysOMG. Nothing against trash - I am a huge fan of trash - but when I read trash, I want things to happen. Quality-wise, it reminds me of some of the self-published efforts I used to see on Fictionpress or : well-written trash that for whatever reason garnered a cult following. ![]() Now it has over 15,000 and I honestly don't get the hype. I remember when this book had under 100 ratings on Goodreads. □įile this under "Goodreads led me astray on yet another over-hyped piece of nonsense." How could you have failed me yet again? For more info on this challenge, click here. □ I read this for the Unapologetic Romance Readers' New Years 2018 Reading Challenge, for the category of: Sports Romance. ![]()
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