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Book 2 of All for the Game; The Raven King follows The Foxhole CourtThe Foxes are a fractured mess, but their latest disaster might be the miracle they've always needed to come together as a team. The one person standing in their way is Andrew, and the only one who can break through his personal barriers is Neil.Except Andrew doesn't give up anything for free and Neil is terrible at trusting anyone but himself. The two don't have much time to come to terms with their situation before outside forces start tearing them apart. Riko is intent on destroying Neil's fragile new life, and the Foxes have just become collateral damage.Neil's days are numbered, but he's learning the hard way to go down fighting for what he believes in, and Neil believes in Andrew even if Andrew won't believe in himself.
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** spoiler alert ** [Marked for spoilers, but nothing in huge detail]I honestly thought book two would be an improvement. Or maybe, I really hoped it would be. Regardless, I'm just too invested in this series to just not finish it now.There's a lot to get out of my system and I'll try my best to keep this review in order.To start, the biggest eyesore is that the writing itself almost seemed to have gotten...worse? I came across a few mistakes that honestly could have been fixed if someone reread it through clearly. For instance, someone mentions to check if someone was still breathing, in a few paragraphs down the task of "breathing" changed to "bleeding". Another example would be in a spot where "both" should have been used, but instead "bother" was used. Normally, I don't harp on such things. However, it just becomes increasingly annoying as they were so simple and obvious. That and I spent time rereading the lines thinking maybe I just reading it wrong.As for characters, I still want to say that there is still some goodness here. I actually love Nicky. He seems to be one of the few that gets to talk a lot with the least awkward moments. To rephrase, most of his parts seemed the least forced. (Ignoring that horrible stereotyped cookie cutter homophobia talk at the family dinner. Like I haven't heard these lines 1000 times already. Impersonal, lacked conviction, and just put in for the sake of having it). Where as anything dealing with Matt, Dan, Renee, or the coach just makes me want to skim and page flip. Their dialogue feels so forced out and I honestly just do not care. It's even worse when they're used to just pass information along or reveal details. Plus, a few just seem unneeded to have separate parts made for. Example being Dan helping Neil remove classes from his schedule. It had a page or so of Dan and Matt explaining the workings of university classes and scheduling. Probably 500 not needed words spent just to show that they are there to help Neil.The only interactions I semi enjoy is Neil and the "monsters". Kevin is probably the most decent character here along side Nicky. Aaron doesn't talk much, or do much for that matter other than the rushed plot twist in the bedroom. Anything Andrew is a mess. One minute they're scared to deal with him off the pills so they always carry his meds around and try to get him to take them, yet they're also scared of him on the pills, and bonus, they all can't wait for him to be off the pills. So which is it? I'm getting so confused as to which Andrew they think is the worse or which one is better. It keeps changing and honestly I stopped keeping track.Meanwhile, the only character growth I'm seeing here has been Neil becoming less concerned about protecting his life and deciding he really wants a death wish. Like full out just throw yourself on a sword death wish. Which, I'm not so sure becoming stupider is nice trait to develop. Although, I suppose it's supposed to speak to him becoming more comfortable and protective of the Foxes. But really? Tell me one more time how the mother is rolling in her grave and I'll personally slap him for her. He also seemed to have developed a sense of knowing details before meeting people or seeing things. For instance he confronts Andrew and suddenly knows the names of Nicky's parents in addition to Andrew's foster family names. Hello?! Who are these people? Yes, I guessed by context clues at that moment, but the reveal isn't until way later when those characters are actually introduced. That's not even the only thing, it just seems like the author thought of something and instead of actually making room for it in a sensible spot, in say book one or in a related area earlier, she just drops it where ever she thinks of it. Then, line by line repeats some of the details we already gained from previous chapters or book one.As for the Ravens, everything with them is super anti climatic. Book one geared up for this big match that just felt so flat when it actually happened. The interactions between them and the Foxes are so posed for effect to distract from that fact that it's really just two boys bickering over their egos. Then I'm honestly supposed to believe that Riko went from casting Neil as useless and a waste of time to suddenly demanding that Neil play for them? So that means Neil isn't useless, right? Riko is an ass because of his father. However, I don't find the rest of the Ravens to be actually that bad. Kevin was once a Raven and he has issues from it but he isn't bad. I truly believe Jean isn't either. Jean is on the wrong side and has to follow what Riko demands to keep his own life. Despite that though he still almost, in some weird ways, wants the best for Neil? He mentions a few times that Neil shouldn't have came. Warns when Neil shouldn't make a fool of himself and because of their joint 'if you get in trouble I do too' pairing Jean pushes Neil to do good to save his own ass. Sadly some of this is based on assumption because this Raven chapter is just that, a chapter. I know why it happened, but honestly it just came and went. I had to stop and make sure a chapter wasn't missing. That's it? Really? Big fat nothing. Maybe more of it comes to light in the third book. I won't hold my breath though.I really would like to be in on what all these five star ratings see. I feel like I'm reading the plot of a sports anime that gets so crazy out of control and distracts from the actual plot it started with. Welcome to soap opera sports. Which I don't actually mind! I can handle the drama and whatever, it's just so frustrating to weed through what is and isn't needed.As I said before, I'm gonna ride this burning train all the way down to it's last stop. It's not a one star because I still enjoy bits of it. It refrains from a three star because there's just too much of 'what?', 'no??', 'wtf' going on here.
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