This is prolonged, sustained torture, things done to hurt someone enormously but not in a way that will significantly damage them. Because even though this series has been violent, most of it has been quite brief or implied. However when something comes home to roost for Neil, it’s brutal, it’s explicit and it is shocking to read.

Neil’s stay at the Ravens, the abuse of Andrew etc, hasn’t been explicitly described. This book is by far the most violent – in the previous two, most of the violence, the real violence, has occurred off page. Only Riko and the Ravens remain disbelieving. For the first time they are an actual force to be reckoned with and everyone who bet against them is starting to rue the day. They are at the important end of the season now, the Foxes are looking better and more cohesive than they ever have before. But Neil has to heal, lest he do himself even more damage and end up being ruled out for longer and miss more games. He’s benched by Abby, much to his chagrin, forced to watch the Foxes train from the sidelines. Neil is recovering from the vicious three weeks he spent at Castle Evermore, the home of the Ravens, because Neil is an idiot and constantly does stupid things.

The games aren’t described play by play, it doesn’t dominate the ins and outs of the story. It’s less about the made up game, although that is still a presence in the books as the Foxes steamroll their way to finals and focus on beating the Ravens and taking them down once and for all. I think because for the most part, most of what the reader needs to know has been revealed and now it’s more about whether or not Neil can successfully dodge the speeding trains coming at him from both directions.

The end of this trilogy and I have to say – this was by far the best book, both writing and plot wise. The truth might get them all killed-or be Neil’s one shot at getting out of this alive.Īnd so here we are. He’s got promises to keep and a team to get to championships if he can just outrun Riko a little longer, but Riko’s not the only monster in Neil’s life. If they both say it doesn’t mean anything, maybe Neil won’t regret losing it, but the one person Neil can’t lie to is himself. Neil should know better than to get involved with anyone this close to the end, but Andrew’s never been the easiest person to walk away from. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn’t survive the year, but with his death right around the corner he’s got more reasons than ever to live.īefriending the Foxes was inadvisable.

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