The Foxhole Court

tw: mentions of drugging, rape

k. so. what the fuck was that.

idk what y'all know about this book, and i honestly don't care, but i was expecting a story about a kid who survives an abusive home life getting a second chance and ending up on a sports team and a m/m romance. basically a somewhat angsty sports-romance heartstopper. this is what i wanted okay the pastels

and this is what i gotttt: emo shit that would not fly or make sense irl, the most unlikable characters ever, some batshit mafia plot, bully romance gag, and just straight-up glorified abuse?? whyyyy

big sigh let me just summarize this for y'all.

this book follows a boy named neil but neil has a ✨ dark past ✨ because his family was abusive and involved in the fucking mafia, so neil is basically hiding his true identity all the time. neil gets recruited to this college sports team for a fictional sport called “exy” and i don't really understand what it is because i hate sports so please don't ask me. there are these three (sometimes four?) guys on the team who are essentially bullies to neil but neil can handle himself because of his ✨ dark past ✨ so whatever. but then the boys drag neil out to a club and drug him and get borderline rape-y all because they believe he's a spy for the other team. then neil decides to stay on the team even after that because why the fuck not. (by this point in the book the author has used every slur and derogatory name for gay people btw.) then there's a bunch of sports scenes that i skimmed because i don't give a shit. i think i was so mad that i blacked out because i cannot remember how this ended at all. ain't no way this wasn't a fanfiction turned into an original story for publication. also one of the shit ass bullies is neil's love interest so there's that.

anyways. this was a miserable experience. fuck this, fuck haikyuu because y'all told me this would be like that for some reason, i'm out!

gonna go play the newly-ported gay lawyer investigations game because i'm tired. i'm so tired.