![]() (Sakavic herself only uses lacrosse and soccer as comparative descriptors, but I think racquetball needs to be on the list, too, for the way that the court is described: an enclosed box court with plexiglass walls and strategies allowing players to bounce the ball off of the walls and ceilings.)Įxy has been developed to the point of being a professional sport as well as functioning at the collegiate level, which is where the book’s events take place, as a part of the NCAA. ![]() By description, Exy is an aggressive sport that is some blend of lacrosse, soccer, racquetball, and hockey. It’s a sports-centred narrative, focused on Sakavic’s fictional team sport, Exy. The Foxhole Court is the first book of three in the All For the Game series. But I was encouraged by the enthusiastic ones more than the ones who don’t like it, so I read it. Though as much as there are people that like it, there are plenty that don’t. There is, on the surface, only a niche following of readers who adore the book and series and are endeared to the characters therein. From what I can gather, too, AFTG has something of a cult following. “BLOODY VIOLENT MAFIA ON THE INSIDE.”Īt the very least, colour me intrigued. “IT’S LACROSSE ON THE OUTSIDE,” another message, emphatic. “DON’T GO INTO IT BLIND,” she warned in one of her first messages when I said I was interested in reading The Foxhole Court. She also sent me a compiled list of trigger warnings for the whole series and said I should take a look beforehand if I had any reservations about serious topics. It happened to be free on the Kindle Store that day (fate, if nothing else) so I downloaded it and started reading it the next day. She was emphatic that I read it and insisted on updates as I read the book. I reached out to one of my mutuals and asked what was up with AFTG. Step two was to ask someone what the heck All For the Game is and if/why I should read it. A quick search returned the promising series name: All For the Game. It was honestly because several readers I follow kept tweeting about ‘aftg’ and I had absolutely no idea what they were talking about*. I first learned about The Foxhole Court the way I learn about most books: through recommendations from other readers and bloggers on Twitter. This is a somewhat unnecessary portion of this discussion, but I want to include it, so here it is. Without further ado-let’s tackle this beast. with an agent by an editor at a big house). ![]() Self-Publishing is important to this discussion, too, as Sakavic self-published this book and, given the book’s content, would not be viable through the means of traditional publishing (i.e. In Fiction & Believability, I want to dig deeper into the function of fiction as a genre and the ways in which the suspension of disbelief must hold up the story as well as give readers the space to buy into the narrative. ![]() Content (and Warnings) will address the oft-labelled “problematic content” of the book and the veritable trove of trigger warnings posted for the series. The three thesis paragraphs are most important in this post. So let’s talk about Nora Sakavic’s first book in her All For the Game series: The Foxhole Court.īecause there is, honestly, just so much to get through, I’m going to break this post up into several sections: Background, Overview, Content (and Warnings), Fiction & Believability, Self-Publishing, and Summary. Though there are plenty of people who would disagree. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here I promise it won’t be all doom and gloom because frankly? I didn’t mind this book. I can feel in my fingers that this is going to be a long one. Spoilers for book one ahead // trigger warning for problematic content (of almost every variety, link in yellow) ![]()
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