Nora Sakavic

My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.

It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.

Captain Jeremy Knox is facing his final year with the USC Trojans and fifth straight year falling short of the championships trophy he desperately craves. Taking in the nation’s best defenseman is a no-brainer, even if that man is a Raven. But Jean is no monster, just a man with no hope or desire for a future, and when Evermore's collapse starts dragging Jean's hideous secrets to light, Jeremy is forced to contend with the cost of victory.

The Sunshine Court

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Jean Moreau came back to himself in pieces, dragging himself together as he had a thousand mornings before.

Then the only thing Jean saw, the only thing that mattered, was the woman sitting in a short chair at the foot of the bed. Renee Walker sat with socked feet propped on the footboard and her arms folded across her knees.

Jean picked up the pills. “Leave the bottle with me.” “You know I can’t,” she said, and left him alone with too many thoughts.

Nathaniel smiled with so much ice Jean thought the room dropped a few degrees.

“The King’s lost all his men and there’s nothing he can do about it without crossing his brother. We’re safe—for good.”

“You should have beat this wildness out of him once you learned his name.” “I couldn’t,” was the weary response. “Everyone who has tried to tame him has failed.”

Kevin’s expression was forbidding. “You made me a promise.” “Fuck you. You have no right to hold me to it.”

“He hasn’t played a clean game in years,” Kevin admitted, “but he knows how to follow orders. If you tell him to submit, he will.” “Literally the most awkward way you could’ve worded it,” Jeremy said.

Laila, you ever feel like—like you’re making a choice you can’t come back from? But even knowing everything could go completely sideways, you’d make that choice every time?” “Every morning I wake up and choose to be your friend,” she said dryly.

“You’ve endured the storm long enough. Don’t you think you’re overdue for some rainbows?” “Yours was the first I saw in years,” Jean said, motioning to his head to indicate her hair.

“I don’t believe in miracles,” Jean said. “I have enough faith for us both,” Renee promised.

Kevin saw nothing but the court, but Jean had stopped hoping for more than that years ago.

Nathaniel was different; he always would be. He wasn’t a Raven, but he was, same as Jean. He was Jean’s misplaced forever partner, an unfulfilled promise Jean had stopped believing in years ago.

The smile that curved Nathaniel’s mouth was slow and hungry and hateful. It twitched a bit as Nathaniel tried to force it away, but he finally had to use the side of his hand to smooth it off his face. The look he turned on Jean was almost serene, but Jean still saw the madness in his eyes.

“Now do you believe in miracles?” “That wasn’t a miracle,” Jean typed out. “That was the Foxes.”

He found what he needed, returned to his spot on the floor, and began taking notes on every time Kevin and Nathaniel had been bullied by the Raven backliners. He went in and out of French as he wrote, depending on how agitated he was and how quickly he needed to get his thoughts out, but trusted them to be able to make sense of his scribbled tirade.

He waited until Jean turned a haunted stare on him before cocking his fingers like a gun and pressing them to his own temple. “Pop, and he was gone. It’s impressive, isn’t it? How easily these monsters die in the end.”

He barely recognized his own voice when he said, “Neil,” but it was enough the other man stopped. Jean’s fingertips finally found denim, but he didn’t try to get a good grip on the other man. “It was a good game.” “Yes,” Neil Josten said, with a smile in his voice. “It was, wasn’t it?”

They looked ridiculous and mismatched. They looked bright and alive and carefree, like they’d somehow forgotten everything that made them qualify for the Fox lineup.

Jean noticed how Andrew and Neil moved like they were caught in each other’s gravity, in each other’s space more than they were out of it, cigarette smoke and matching armbands and lingering looks when one fell out of orbit for too long. He’d always assumed it was Neil’s arrogance that brought him to Evermore over Christmas. Now he thought it was something else, but it wasn’t his place to comment on it. Nathaniel was his broken promise; Neil’s life was none of his business.

The way I craved to be utterly ripped apart again at the very seams just by returning to this wretched part of fictional worlds, when I picked up the fourth part of the All for the Game series is hard to put into words. I still don’t know why I felt such comfort in between all of the pain that were the first three parts of this series but I did know that I wanted to feel that again, so imagine my surprise when I stumbled over parts 4 and 5! I didn’t even know they existed.

I was excited to get back into this world and I looked forward to meeting all the misfits again, so it did fall a little flat for me, once I noticed that we wouldn’t actually be returning to the Foxes and all the mayhem they call home. Jean was interesting, but I didn’t really feel the same kind of connection to his newly found friends and home, as I did with Neil and the Foxes. Maybe it was a bit of a expectations so high they couldn’t be met thing, but I really, really wanted to return to my band of misfits, to characters so utterly unhinged they make you feel normal on your worst days. Now, Jean is completely, top to bottom, fucked up. That’s in no way debatable and it’s cool to witness him find his footing, but the Sunshine Court is pretty much what they claim to be: sunshine, lovey, cutesy, caring. I know that they are not supposed to be the Foxes, but still I felt me missing them so, so much.

This book also does not span a lot of time and I’m not sure, if I am okay with that AND having time jumps in between. Either give me all or more, it was a bit in the middle for me with the way it progressed. I am curious to see how this all plays out (ha, ha!) when they actually get to the games and I am for sure going to continue reading, but this part was a solid 3.5 for me and left me incredibly homesick for the Foxhole Court, their shenanigans and the walking attitude problems occupying it.

Leonie

The way I craved to be utterly ripped apart again at the very seams just by returning to this wretched part of fictional worlds, when I picked up the fourth part of the All for the Game series is hard to put into words. I still don’t know why I felt such comfort in between all of the pain that were the first three parts of this series but I did know that I wanted to feel that again, so imagine my surprise when I stumbled over parts 4 and 5! I didn’t even know they existed.

I was excited to get back into this world and I looked forward to meeting all the misfits again, so it did fall a little flat for me, once I noticed that we wouldn’t actually be returning to the Foxes and all the mayhem they call home. Jean was interesting, but I didn’t really feel the same kind of connection to his newly found friends and home, as I did with Neil and the Foxes. Maybe it was a bit of a expectations so high they couldn’t be met thing, but I really, really wanted to return to my band of misfits, to characters so utterly unhinged they make you feel normal on your worst days. Now, Jean is completely, top to bottom, fucked up. That’s in no way debatable and it’s cool to witness him find his footing, but the Sunshine Court is pretty much what they claim to be: sunshine, lovey, cutesy, caring. I know that they are not supposed to be the Foxes, but still I felt me missing them so, so much.

This book also does not span a lot of time and I’m not sure, if I am okay with that AND having time jumps in between. Either give me all or more, it was a bit in the middle for me with the way it progressed. I am curious to see how this all plays out (ha, ha!) when they actually get to the games and I am for sure going to continue reading, but this part was a solid 3.5 for me and left me incredibly homesick for the Foxhole Court, their shenanigans and the walking attitude problems occupying it.

The pacing of this book felt a bit odd to me tho, feels like I only read half a book yk

Naomi 

My babies ugh I live them

The pacing of this book felt a bit odd to me tho, feels like I only read half a book yk

Cici Pearson

Kat 

I know exactly what to expect from the books in this series, and yet they get me every time right where it hurts. 

When I started reading this one, I legitimately could not put it down. It probably would have helped to have reread the first three, but I was too impatient and instead relied on my memory/wiki to help remind me of certain things. 

Sakavic knows how to write angst, drama, trauma, and incredible one liners that rip out your heart. I’ll be foaming at the mouth for the next book. 

Floofyflower

I know exactly what to expect from the books in this series, and yet they get me every time right where it hurts. 

When I started reading this one, I legitimately could not put it down. It probably would have helped to have reread the first three, but I was too impatient and instead relied on my memory/wiki to help remind me of certain things. 

Sakavic knows how to write angst, drama, trauma, and incredible one liners that rip out your heart. I’ll be foaming at the mouth for the next book. 

why did i think this was going to be a fun light read??

matti horckmans

kelsey

”My place is at Evermore but you did not have to slit my throat on the way out.” 

sobbing my eyes out i love found family so much. jean deserves the fucking world. i honestly think that jean and andrew would get along so well if they weren’t almost the same person 

neil protecting jean means everything to me too

jean and kevin’s relationship being destroyed because kevin saved himself ALSO KILLS ME LIKE

how am i ever supposed to move on from these books oh my god 

sarah ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

i did in fact drop everything to read this and it was totally worth it.

i WILL be dropping everything i’m doing to read this as soon as it’s out.

ash (smokedshelves)

i did in fact drop everything to read this and it was totally worth it.

original review
i WILL be dropping everything i’m doing to read this as soon as it’s out.

devastated to have finished this book was it objectively bad yes but i want more

also neil was so cunty in this book i love my son

wait im so mad that i can’t write more than one review this is fucked - anyway i fear this will be a yearly reread until the series is done

Clara Gauthier

devastated to have finished this book was it objectively bad yes but i want more

also neil was so cunty in this book i love my son

wait im so mad that i can’t write more than one review this is fucked - anyway i fear this will be a yearly reread until the series is done