I felt like maybe I was reading an entirely different version of the book than everyone else, or like I was crazy, or dumb. Looking at most of the glowing reviews on Goodreads and the store and at the wild enthusiasm on Tumblr makes me feel like I’m being hoaxed, or gaslighted, to some unknown purpose. The more honest thing I can say is that it’s hard for me to imagine that anyone is in the audience for them. I was very willing to like them, or at the very least to have fun with them and enjoy them.) The kindest thing I can say about these books is that they’re a mess and apparently I am not in the audience for them. The last book is marginally better than the first two, but only very marginally.) (They are all very much parts of one story. It’s really the only reason I actually finished all three of them. So I read The Foxhole Court (and the other two books) in the All for the Game series. Maybe I'm too old and too used to reading actual literature instead of Tumblr posts, but I guess I just wasn't the right audience. This isn't a book about anything at all and it will make you feel like you are losing IQ points to read it. There are no redeeming factors whatsoever. I can go on, and on, and ON about the reasons I hate this book. Exy is just a tool to explore the relationships between a bunch of unrealistic, cartoony characters who would never, ever exist in any realm of reality and are therefore absolutely pointless to read about.
You just have this vague idea of "Exy" and it's a sport and there are rackets I think, and that's about all you get. The author doesn't even bother to give a satisfactory explanation of the rules or anything to give you a concrete picture of what the ENTIRE NOVEL is based around. It's a self-indulgent vomiting of words onto paper. I think the fact that this book gets nothing but rave reviews made my anger at this book even worse because I was expecting, like, you know. To me, this book was written by somebody who thought, "wow, I wish I could make an anime, but I can't, so I'll just write a book instead." And they proceeded to create one of the absolute worst books I have ever read, if not THE worst.
FOXHOLE COURT AUDIOBOOK SERIES
I don't know who the audience for this series is, but it is some sort of cult favorite for people with no taste. A lot the things that bothered me about it are the same things that bother me about most of the fanfic out there, so maybe people that read a lot of fanfic won't be bothered by the things I saw as flaws. Obviously this won't bother people that don't know how college sports work, but I wish the author had made up a pretend governing body if she was going to completely disregard how NCAA sports work.Ĭlearly a lot of people love this book, but I honestly don't get the appeal.
Nothing about how the NCAA of this book functioned was accurate, and it frustrated me so much. Going along with that, I couldn't get past the fact that she had this set in a world of college athletics and the NCAA. It was unclear if it was supposed to take place in the future or in an AU or what, and there was really no introduction to the world the story was set in. I think my biggest issue with the story was the lack of world building. I also didn't like any of the characters, but that doesn't always preclude me from liking a book. People speak in contractions, and if none of your characters speak in contractions it reads like you're a 14 year old writing an assignment for class. I didn't think it was well written - particularly the very stilted dialogue. This has great ratings and I'd heard such good things about it, but I thought it was terrible.
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