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    The Foxhole Court
    The Foxhole Court
    The Foxhole Court
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Foxhole Court

    Written by Nora Sakavic

    Narrated by Alexander Cendese

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    Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. 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.

    Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

    But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 21, 2018
    ISBN9781541448490

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    • 4/5
      It might not be the most easiest read - coercion and such, characters resisting to be likable ( especially you, Kevin), but gosh, if not intriguing! It feels as it is its own world - a bit too intense to be real, but with interactions of broken kids at the heart and vigilant, wary Neil, it's such a feast. Couldn't help but cheer for him all the way.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Couldn´t stop listening to the book, kept me thinking about the plot, I even listened to this during my online classes. Love it

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Reading this trilogy feels like coming back to my 17-year-old persona - who discovered the world of Exy and struck a deep bond with Neil. Loving the audiobook, loving Nora as always.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I love this series and these characters so much! Great audiobook

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The Foxhole Court is such an important series to me. From relating to these broken foxes to seeing them grow, learn to love and heal has made a huge impact on me and the tough time I've had in my childhood. I'm an adult now, but books like this still remind me why I fight and why I wake up every day. Because this book reminds me that shit happens, but we'll get through it, and that I'm here because I chose to live. These characters are amazing, full of character development and Nora's writing is inexplicably beautiful. It has it's flaws, but this series holds a huge spot in my heart and God forgive me when I say that this series is my therapy. I read it when I'm sad, angry, tired or anxious. Its my happiness. I honestly have read this ( listened to it, too ) hundreds of times this past year and this narrator is simply amazing too. It's full of tough, hard, eery content that isn't suitable for everyone but... Give it a shot. It's amazing. And it is so, so important.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is my first reread of this series, and my first time with the audiobook.. I was not a huge fan of the voices used for certain characters.. Andrew especially.. but I got kind of used to it at the end.. 5 stars bc I absolutely love this series and missed these characters sooo much!
    • 4/5
      Right from the start this first book was very clearly introductory. It was very slow moving and took very long to pick up. I am not sure what the strategy was but it can be dangerous to pace a story in that way because readers may lose interest. There is still a lot to be unpacked especially; the details of Neil, Kevin and Rico's past or what happened between the twins Andrew and Aaron or what exactly is Andrew's mental illness- it's a lot of mystery.
      It piqued my interest though and the ratings motivated me to continue.
    • 5/5
      The mc is a badass and I love it. 100% worth listening to))also, the foxes are kinda chaotic and it's funny. But the plot is still somewhat dark. Reminds me if the Heathens Twenty one pilots song. ~all my friends are heathens, take it slow
    • 5/5
      God I love this series with all my heart! I haven't listened to the audiobook, but I have read the series twice and have fallen for it entirely. Lovely writing with an epic plot I never got bored of and enough romance to pull at my heartstrings! I love this series and cannot recommend it enough
    • 4/5
      I love this book more than anything, but the voices used for the female characters got incredibly grating after a while. I'm glad that I only ever listened while going to bed so that the voices won't stick with me because WHEW they were not good.
    • 4/5
      love the book, the narrators voice for andrew is horrendous. not sure if i’m rating the book or the audio in my review so i chose 4?
    • 4/5
      The book was amazing! A lot of trigger warnings though so i would suggest looking them up if you want to dive into this series. I really enjoyed it however and can see why tik tok liked it. Will continue to read the last two and hope these characters get peace!
    • 4/5
      This is my first review but I strongly felt this book needed a more honest review so here I am.

      FIRSTLY, THIS TRILOGY HAS MANY TRIGGER WARNINGS PLEASE BE ADVISED.

      I almost quit this book halfway through because it's a bit of a mess. There are so many names and so much background being thrown at you from the start that it is overwhelming. I usually listen to my audiobooks sped up but had to reduce this one down to normal speed so I could have a few extra moments to remember who was who in a conversation. I'm also not a huge fan of the narrator but that's pretty subjective.
      I also had to Google whether this book actually had a romance, as I'd been recommended it as a mlm story. This is because the first book of the series has no hints of a relationship whatsoever. If you are the type who feeds only off of that tension, you're going to be bored.
      However, I'm going to defend that choice from the author even as someone who almost quit the story. This is enemies to lovers, and a trilogy. This really means that to be believable and build the relationship naturally, all 3 books are needed. The first book takes the pair from strangers, to enemies, to reluctantly truced enemies. I saw some reviews state that there is nothing there at all between them but I argue there is: true character and relational development. The moments between the two begin to draw them together and make them closer, but at this stage in their relationship it is mostly circumstantial and unwilling. As a fan of E2L I personally like this because it will be all the more sweeter when they realize they've become close, or start to seek each other out intentionally. I think there is honestly some great development there that I wanted to defend in my review because many people are missing it.
      Now, I think it's getting missed because as I said, this book is a bit of a mess. There's a lot of info, a lot of events happening rapid-fire, and some pretty unbelievable aspects like the MCs background. If you can get the characters straight in your head, suspend some belief, and get through some sports action, you'll be okay.

      I've started the second book and won't post spoilers, but I do want to say my suspicion is true: the pair become closer and less hostile and I can see now how the eventual relationship will be believable and exciting to finally achieve. This trilogy just take more patience to get there than many in this trope Fandom seem to want to wait.
      I can bet if this were a well-tagged fanfic under "slow-burn" people would be reading 100 chapters happily with no complaint. The problem here is that people are getting into it with no prior warning at just HOW slow-burn it will be. So, I highly recommend anyone willing to wait for their reward to give this book a better chance.
    • 5/5
      This is my 3rd re read. This is a fabulous series, great characters and really interesting plot development
    • 3/5
      How is that a book I was about to DNF suddenly got interesting so fast??? Guess “boys protecting boys” (TM) is my jam. Neil is a very improbable character but not as annoying as I expected. If Neil is a 3 in the improbability score then Andrew must be a 10.... man, I hated him for what he did to Neil and at the end of the book I loved their “friendship”??? At least Neil is not fully trusting and I can get behind that... I don’t know what it says about me that their dynamics entertain me. 2.75
    • 3/5
      the female voices sound so weird idk, I mean, is a great book, just, yeah, the girls
    • 5/5
      This story is both intriguing and compelling. I was hooked from the jump and I can't wait to see where it will go from here!?
    • 5/5
      I love it, all the characters are so damage ,
    • 1/5
      I’m unsure why this has so many glowing reviews. The writing is pretty bad. Truly terrible and cliche writing, from the first page to the last.
    • 3/5
      The series wasn’t what i expected going into it, and doesn’t have as much romance as I would have liked. However, it was still a good read. Some character were better developed than others, and certain aspects were unrealistic. It felt a little more like a mafia + sports au fanfiction rather than a real book. It was still decently enjoyable and if you like hurt/comfort and angst, you’d like this series.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book. This would make a great tv show.

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    • 4/5
      4,1 stars

      I knew going in that enjoying this book requires some heavy suspension of disbelief. Which is probably the reason why I was able to enjoy it as much as I did. Mostly this first book sets the scene for the rest of the series (I'm assuming) and introduces the reader to the world of the imaginary sport Exy, as well as the brutal world of teenagers running away from what is effectively the mafia.

      Overall, this book is just very entertaining. I thought the pacing was good, the characters were decent, and I feel like there's a lot of potential for the rest of the series. The initial hazing and "initiations" were really not to my liking, but I'm hoping we're starting to be past that now that Neil is more a part of the team.

      I hope I'll like parts two and three even more.
    • 4/5
      Been curious about this one for a while, with various references I'd seen on social media. I knew it was considered problematic by some, adored by some, etc., but I wanted to make my own assessment. I'm now...intrigued, I suppose. The description of the gameplay was the weakest point for me, and I found it hard to keep my attention on it. There are questions that are going to eat at me if I don't read the next book (what's up with Renee?), so I guess I've been pulled in for now.
    • 4/5
      I dont think Ive really picked a story about sports since the Gordon Korman and Chris Crutcher books I read in high school, but I had this recommended to me and thought I would give it a try... and then proceeded to finish it in under 24 hours.

      Are real life college athletics and organized crime anything like they are in this book? Probably not. But since the book I read before this featured a house that grew fur and then ate people I figured I would just roll with it. I found the cast of characters varied and fascinating (though thoroughly dysfunctional), and actually got into the sports aspects of the book more than I thought I would. I dont know if most people would enjoy this book but I did and cant see myself not finishing the series.

    • 3/5
      This was a fun book. Definitely the first in the series. It seemed to mostly set up all the conflict that will happen later in the series but it was still pretty good on its own. All the characters were interesting. I liked that they were all so interesting and that they didn’t feel like the stereotypical “heroes.” I listened to this on audiobook and it was pretty good. Very fast as well. The audiobook was only seven hours. Since I’m in college right now it’s a lot easier for me to listen to audiobooks. Only this first book is available as an audiobook right now so I’m not entirely sure how long it will until I read the rest of the series but I definitely want to continue. This is the type of story I love, even if the plot is a bit unrealistic. For fiction like this I’m not reading it for the realism but as a fun escape. Excited to see what happens in books 2 and 3.
    • 4/5
      Much like many of the reviews I've read since I finished this book, I picked it up without any real expectations. It was available for free and looked mildly interesting, but it definitely surprised me and made me incredibly glad I took that chance.

      Neil Josten has been running from his past for as long as he can remember. When his skill in a sport known as Exy get the attention of a recruiter at Palmetto State University, however, he has a decision to make: keep running or take some time to pursue playing the sport he loves. And the fact that the team's new star player is someone that he knew in his past seems like a point in the favor of either decision.

      The way Nora Sakavic builds the world and slowly introduces the characters is something that really keeps the reader engaged (at one point, I sat down to read a chapter and got up nearly 10 chapters later) and demonstrates a skill in storytelling that I haven't seen in a while. One has to suspend some disbelief to accept aspects of the story (I just settled on the idea that it takes place in the near future to explain some of the differences in societal norms and regulations), but Sakavic makes it very easy to do so. For a book that is touted as having m/m romance elements, it is a bit light on that front (they're mostly hinted at in this book), but I expect they will continue to build in the future books in the series.
    • 1/5
      I wanted to like this book. I went into it optimistically. I found it due to my love of The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. I have to say, I have no idea why comparisons have been drawn there. The only similarity is that each series has a book called The Raven King. They have absolutely nothing in common.

      The first thing I have to address is the writing. It's...not great. I had a hard time following it sometimes. I actually had to start the book over at one point because I had no idea what was going on. I'm going to blame that on the book and not myself. I'm an experienced reader. A YA sports novel should not be more difficult for me than James Joyce.

      I think one of the major reasons I was confused is because there is no exposition at the beginning. I'm not saying there necessarily has to be, but it seemed frequently like the book was assuming knowledge that it hadn't given me yet. And then the backstory was revealed seemingly at random, with nothing really prompting the expository segments.

      The dialogue is pretty bad. The characters all sound the same, and none of them sound like real people.

      I won't go into too much detail about the actual sport of Exy, since I know very little about sports in general and pretty much nothing about the NCAA. I will say that I am at a complete loss to tell you how Exy is played, what the equipment looks like, how a player scores points, how a team wins, or basically anything you might want to know about a sport. This one may be partially on me, but I think a lot of it isn't.

      None of the characters are very likable. Anyone who isn't a complete irredeemable asshole is flat and uninteresting.

      Most of them are complete irredeemable assholes, though.

      I need to talk about Nicky for a second. Sure, it's nice to see an openly gay character on a sports team who mostly gets along well with his teammates (except for Seth spewing slurs at him, which is not treated as a big deal at all. But then, of course, Seth dies, so maybe that's his punishment for being a homophobe? More on that later).

      Nicky is an extremely negative stereotype. There are many stereotypes about gay men to be found in media. The flamboyant gay man. The fashion-obsessed gay man. These may be overused, but they're not inherently harmful (there are situations where they might be, of course).

      Nicky, however, is a harmful character. The predatory gay man. The one who hits on all his straight friends all the time, who can't stop talking about all the sex he wants to have with them, even after they make it clear they're not interested and he's making them uncomfortable. It escalates to him forcing himself on Neil, in order to force Neil to take drugs. That is assault. That is horrific and his casual apology to Neil doesn't even begin to make up for it. He and his friends are criminals.

      Speaking of criminals, what the hell is up with Andrew? He doesn't have any treatable condition as far as I can tell. He's portrayed as a complete psychopath with no regard for human emotion or any type of morality. That cannot be treated by a pill. Even if that pill is some sort of magic fictional pill that can cause withdrawal after hours and, after that same period of time, is completely undetectable in the body (considering the fears that people could find out that Andrew was off his meds for the game. It's very doubtful). Also, the continued usage of the word "sober" was infuriating. Please don't conflate psychiatric medicine with addiction. Are we supposed to like Andrew? Apparently we're supposed to think he's better for Kevin than Riko is, even though they're both violent and controlling abusers.

      On the note of mental health, there was the line about how Seth doesn't need his antidepressants when he's with Allison because she helps him in some way? That's not how depression works.

      That's not how any of this works.
    • 5/5
      27/01/2017
      reading this feels like coming home. in retrospect things make so much more sense. but the most painful part is neil's character development. he's grown so much.

      03/09/2016
      i would give it a thousand stars if i could. so much better the second time around when i actually understand what's going on. i cried a lil bit at the end, when andrew does the thing.

      22/03/2016
      this book was...... different. didn't think i would like it because i'm not a very big sports fan, but i ended up loving it somehow. it wasn't that i fell madly in love with it, it was just that it kept me reading. i feel like it's very much a character driven story? but i never once felt bored.
      i probably enjoyed it so much because of the characters, characters who were so realistic?? and actual human types? all of them had layers to their personalities and they had complex stories and they were all three-dimensional and i absolutely loved it. most of the time i had no idea what i was supposed to feel towards any given character this is genius.
      and the sport itself is very creative though i can't really imagine it, but i did like how it was described and how it was the central part of the story without being shoved in my face.
      and then there's neil. i have very mixed feelings about him. mainly because i don't really know a whole lot about him?? we are given information about his past and childhood and current situation and his thoughts were all there but i still wouldn't be able to tell what kind of person he is? what gestures he makes what are his qualities or flaws or just anything?? i guess that's kind of good because he has to kind of act a certain way to live the life he is living but still. i hope we get to know him better as the series goes on.
      and the absolute best thing about it is that THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ROMACE ISN'T THAT JUST FANTASTIC though i do ship neil and kevin heh
      all in all i thoroughly enjoyed this book and i can't wait to start the next one.
    • 5/5
      The Foxhole Court series is a wonderful series that we have all been blessed with! I loved it so much. It contains: understanding, friendship, love, courage and diversity. I swear that this series are just the best to lose yourself in and experience the amazing universe of the exy sport and the junkies that exist in it. If you read this before you know what I am talking about;)
    • 4/5
      This book is very interesting to say the least. I'm not exactly sure where I stand with any of the characters yet, and I don't know if I actually like any of them. But they intrigue me, and make my fingers itch to start the next book in the series. The novel comes off very much as a fanservice type book, and that's not a bad thing: I feel like Sakavic wrote the exact type of book she would have loved to read, and that just happens to be the same type of book that us fans out here love to read. One of my main critiques about this book is that for a sports book, it's really lacking sport. I have no idea how Exy is played other than that it is very aggressive, is a lacrosse hybrid sport, and that the player can only walk 10 steps with the ball. More game play would be nice, but I get that the book is more about the bizarre and broken characters than the game itself; but if the game is a part of the players and their connections to each other, then I believe game play is important.

      Anyhow, this is a very strange and interesting book, and I look forward to reading more and (hopefully) letting these characters enter my heart.