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Rating: 4.5/5
Started: 18 January 2022
Finished: 23 January 2022
Summary:
Neil has been on the run from his mob boss father ever since he was a child. But after his mother died, he couldn't help but enroll in a middle-of-nowhere high-school to play Exy, a sport that like lacrosse on a soccer-field sized court, played with the violence of ice hockey. When he is recruited to the Palmetto State Foxes, a collegiate Exy team for screw ups in need of second chances, he knows that he cannot outrun his father forever. But playing Exy with some of the best in the nation is too hard to pass up. Neil knows that his time with the Foxes is limited, but he has nothing left to lose.
Thoughts:
I feel like every time I read this series, it gets better. I read this book very slowly as a coping mechanism for dead weak/finals, and it worked. One of my favorite things about the series is how much Neil comes through in the narration. You know about his mother from the get-go, because it's important, but don't get to know what he looks like until it's relevant while he checks his hair dye. His unreliability as a narrator is brilliant, and I just don't get tired reading it. I also love knowing where the series is going to end up, and getting to find all of the clues that lead up to it. This series is everything.