How do I even start this.

Where The Foxhole Court was good, The Raven King was excellent. I struggled a bit at the beginning of the series with getting to know and remembering all of the characters, but boy have these book hit their stride. The sports sequences were better, the drama was better, everything was better. The feels hit harder. The rivalries intensified. We're getting a much better feel for who we're rooting for and who we want to smash in the face with an Exy racquet. Yeah, I got a lot more emotionally invested in this one.

I'm angry, I'm happy, I'm excited.

And yes, I cried, okay?

The characters are all flawed af but how else would I love them this much? And to all the people who hate this series, yes. It is insanely dramatic and wildly unbelievable. I just don't care, because it's also intensely entertaining.

And, to be honest, it's not really about the plot. These books are character driven, and every one of the Foxes (except Aaron. I'm still on the fence about Aaron) has my entire heart. The family they're building makes my heart feel like it's going to burst.

Off to go read the last one.

This book...was nothing at all like I expected.

At first I thought, "The Foxhole Court. Sounds like some sort of fairy court book. I like fairy books."

Then I realized it was court as in "place where you play a sport" and I'm gonna be honest, my expectations dropped dramatically.

But ohhhhhh boy was this book f*ing insane. I have absolutely no idea how to describe it. Sure, yeah. It's a sports book. But it's also one of those books where I had to put it down just because too much was happening and my brain was overloading, but then I had to pick it up ~30 seconds later because so much was happening and I needed to keep going.

Big shoutout to my sister for getting all of these books because if I wasn't able to just start the next one about a minute after I finish typing this review I think I might combust.

Honestly, I’m just 500,000% done with “quirky premise followed by: couple gets together at 40% mark but trouble is brewing which blows up at 80-85% mark so they break up only to get back together with a grand gesture at 95%” it’s so goddamn repetitive and I can’t deal with it anymore.

The Unhoneymooners was tropey in a decent way and the romance was cute but it was also tropey in a bad way and I couldn’t stand: the ex, the blow up, the grand gesture, and the way Olive talked about her body.