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The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
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★★★★★/★★★★★
Book Review: The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
This new adult sports novel had me slightly perplexed when I finally agreed to give it a try considering the first in the trilogy was free on Kindle. If you knew me in real life, you'd know that I am not one for sports but the story of Neil Josten and the foxes was so much more than a sports novel.
Neil Josten is about to graduate high school when a college coach appears and offers him a scholarship to play the fictional sport of Exy (Exy is described as a cross between larcrose and ice hockey, played on a court the size of a football pitch) with the Palmetto State University Foxes; Neil is a young man with a past, and with nothing to lose he finally agrees to join with the struggling Foxes, a team of misfits, recruited seemingly for that express reason by their coach, David Wymack.
He moves and begins to train with the reluctant Foxes who haven't left for the summer, Kevin (a former star Exy player who was injured in a skiing accident the winter before and also 'discovers' Neil), Andrew (psycho extraordinaire, heavily medicated some of the time), Aaron (Andrew's less psychotic twin) and Nicky (the twins' cousin). What follows is a relentless and gruelling training schedule until school starts and the rest of the team descend again - as you can imagine, most are not keen to see an inexperienced player amongst their ranks and don't hold their punches (quite literally for some).
The Exy parts were initially confusing but with the help of a wiki article and further reading of the book, I actually found myself enjoying them. They're very well written and believable, especially as it's a fictional sport - I did picture it as something similar to the sport played in Starship Troopers initially to help me visualise it.
The whole other side to the story is Neil and his secret past which is touched upon at various points during the story. It's very readable and I was intrigued, and can't wait to read more about the team and their upcoming challenges after that ending, in The Raven King
Book Review: The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
This new adult sports novel had me slightly perplexed when I finally agreed to give it a try considering the first in the trilogy was free on Kindle. If you knew me in real life, you'd know that I am not one for sports but the story of Neil Josten and the foxes was so much more than a sports novel.
Neil Josten is about to graduate high school when a college coach appears and offers him a scholarship to play the fictional sport of Exy (Exy is described as a cross between larcrose and ice hockey, played on a court the size of a football pitch) with the Palmetto State University Foxes; Neil is a young man with a past, and with nothing to lose he finally agrees to join with the struggling Foxes, a team of misfits, recruited seemingly for that express reason by their coach, David Wymack.
He moves and begins to train with the reluctant Foxes who haven't left for the summer, Kevin (a former star Exy player who was injured in a skiing accident the winter before and also 'discovers' Neil), Andrew (psycho extraordinaire, heavily medicated some of the time), Aaron (Andrew's less psychotic twin) and Nicky (the twins' cousin). What follows is a relentless and gruelling training schedule until school starts and the rest of the team descend again - as you can imagine, most are not keen to see an inexperienced player amongst their ranks and don't hold their punches (quite literally for some).
The Exy parts were initially confusing but with the help of a wiki article and further reading of the book, I actually found myself enjoying them. They're very well written and believable, especially as it's a fictional sport - I did picture it as something similar to the sport played in Starship Troopers initially to help me visualise it.
The whole other side to the story is Neil and his secret past which is touched upon at various points during the story. It's very readable and I was intrigued, and can't wait to read more about the team and their upcoming challenges after that ending, in The Raven King