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Th foxhole court4/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The ridiculous premise keeps getting weirder as you find out more about Neil (literally his Mum’s dying wish is that he stops playing Exy next thing you know he’s in a college team playing the kids of the family who are after him). You might feel like I’ve left a lot out of that explanation and you might be a little confused – well, join the club! I honestly couldn’t make head not tail of the story. He joins the team, they nearly kill/maim/sexually assault him on a number of occasions, they practice drills but never an actual game (come on…really?) then there’s some kind of feud and I don’t even know. Why they’re interested in Neil is beyond me, seeing as his past is a total secret, but there you go. Neil is a good Exy player (which as far as I can tell us a kind of violent lacrosse) and (I think) used to play for a good team so miraculously ends up playing for his high school (I’m not even going into why he would go back to school, or how he would enrol with no paperwork) and gets picked up by the Foxes, some kind of reject Raggydoll college team that’s only made up of violent psycopaths, drug addicts and the euphemistically titled “people with a past”. Oh, and I think he dyes his hair but that’s never mentioned. Something happens to her (murdered? Suicide? I’m not clear) so he makes a run for it, changing his name and wearing coloured contact lenses as a disguise. ![]() The essential premise is that a teenager called Neil has a dodgy past and ends up going on the run with his mother. I felt like I had started a trilogy in the middle of book two. My notes when reading it include “I don’t even know what the story is about any more”, “Exy appears to be completely unfathomable” and “surely those contact lenses ain’t fooling anyone?” It was badly written, badly structured, had massive plot holes, was overly detailed in parts then woefully scant in others. I was amazed – AMAZED – that there is an entire fandom surrounding the Foxhole Court series. Similar to: The worst Twilight fan fiction. ![]()
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