The Foxhole Court (All for the Game #1) by Nora Sakavic

 

 5 awesome and breathtaking stars for this masterpiece!

This is the story about a scared boy on the run from his fearsome and terrible past. This is a story about doing everything you can to be able to hold onto your dream. Of stopping to run and starting to fight. Of devotion and endurance. This is a story about broken things that aren't broken. This is a story about slowly building, fragile friendships in places where you least expected to find them. About raising above your circumstances and risking everything for a little bit of happiness.
This is the story about Neil Josten and at the same time it's not.
We never learn his real name in the first book of an amazin trilogy. Neil is a very private person, guarding every little detail that could give away his true identity. Coloured hair, contact lenses. He is doing everything he can to let his past life remain as far away as possible.
Until one night.
The one thing he couldn't keep away from is the stone that sets everything in motion. Exy - a cross between Hockey and Lacrosse - is the one love Neil can't leave and the only reason why he goes against his better judgement. The coach of the Palmetto State University Foxe, a team of teenagers with more than enough problems to lasst two lifetimes, shows up one evening and asks Neil to join his Exy team. The coach didn't come alone though and the person he brought with him almost stopps Neil's heart and ends the story before it really started, because it's someone Neil didn't ever want to see again. But, as luck goes combined with many past years and a changed appearance Neil's faked persona isn't exposed. Torn between all consuming fear and a small shimmer of hope and the wish the play more Exy Neil makes a decision that'll turn his life upside down.

This book was breathtakingly amazing and I devoured it in one go. I have to add that I'm not a person for storys that have a strong focus on sports, but even so I enjoyed it in this one and I always love it when an author manages to make me like something I normally don't.
The Foxhole Court was available as a free read on Amazon and I'm eternally grateful for that because I probably wouldn't have read it otherwise and missed out on one of the best books I've ever read. I'd pretty much give anything to be able to have a hard copy of this awesomeness. Alas, as it often goes with things you want badly this story only exists as an ebook.
The characters all have their fair share of scares and only add to the dark theme of the story. That shouldn't keep you from reading this story though. The character development you can witness throughout the three books as well as the slowly blossoming and growing friendships between the characters, their strive and struggles for getting and keeping what they desire is worth every minute where you're not sure if there is a light waiting at the end of the tunnel.