Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Surprisingly enjoyed this; what a comeback.

The King's Men (All for the Game, #3) by Nora Sakavic

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This was the best one in the series by far, but it still has its issues. I feel like a good (tough) editor could have made this series really great. This ended as well as it could have, given the build up (how’s that for damning with faint praise!) and the foundation the story was built on (basically drama and unrealistic understanding of human emotion and the way the world works). Yet, part of me does want to round up to four stars, because it […]

Somewhere in the multiverse there is a universe where this series had an editor, and the me that lives there gave this book five stars.

The Raven King (All for the Game, #2) by Nora Sakavic

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This series is so frustrating. Promising story arcs ruined by utter nonsense. At least this one was more readable. What’s particularly frustrating is that I’m finally seeing glimpses of why so many people are out of their minds for this series, but every time I see those glimpses, something so utterly nonsensical or wrong pops up and ruins everything. Also, she still isn’t a great writer. So much unnecessary description (we don’t need to know where all characters are at all times when in a […]

This was a hot, sloppy mess.

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

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If you’re not aware of this book, a while back this series started making the rounds on Tumblr. It’s entirely self-published, and managed to break through somehow. It follows a team of college athletes playing a made-up sport called Exy at a fictional university called Palmetto State. The main character is the son of a crime lord and has been on the run for most of his life; he is living under a fake identity when he’s recruited. He also happens to have been childhood […]

The Start of Something that Hasn’t Quite Found It’s Footing Just Yet

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

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The Foxhole Court is the first novel of Nora Sakavic’s All for the Game, which gives an intriguing beginning for what is to come, but unfortunately does not really stand so well as a book on it’s own: it’s clearly just a buildup, and given it’s slim run of under 300 pages, I wonder if perhaps it would not have work to put the 3 instalments of the series into one novel with parts/books 1-2-3 all together? But that’s not my decision at the end […]



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