I find most of the characters very hard to relate to and would never engage in conversation with them in real life. The characters in AFTG kind of made me feel bad.
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I would like to talk to other people that have read this series so that someone can help me heal. There’s one very specific image the author describes in the rape scene that I thought of every 10–30 seconds while reading The King’s Men. I was not prepared for the rape scene in this book. Unfortunately for this book, even though I figuratively looked away by skimming overly graphic scenes, there is still one image from the rape scene in The Raven King that I can’t forget. One commonality between this trilogy and Psycho Pass is that at times, the violence became so much that I simply had to look away from the screen. I had simply read too much of the trilogy to stop, but I was so scarred and traumatized that it was like my experience watching Psycho Pass. The turning point for me was this excruciating, brutal rape scene in The Raven King, the second book of the trilogy. This violence is not brief, vague, or meaningful. The violence contained in the last two books is less like an aesthetic tumblr mood board and more like a gory Pinterest board. People mention graphic violence in their AFTG reviews, but since there wasn’t anything traumatizing in the first book, I thought I’d be fine for the other two. Andrew, as much as I love you, you can’t stare at other people silently in lieu of responding to a question. I’m a weird person, so this is a lot for me to say. I think the mid-conversation paragraphs describing Andrew and Neil staring at each other are meant to belie the sexual tension between them, but all I can think to myself is, “50% of this book is Andrew and Neil staring at each other silently”. There are so many scenes where the rest of their team sees this happening, and of course at first it’s like awwww yeah there’s the homo but even then I wonder, isn’t this such a strange way to interact with people? Why would you do that? Every “conversation” between them consists of Neil looking at Andrew and saying something, Andrew refusing to say anything, Neil staring at Andrew for two minutes, and them not saying anything to each other. Despite this, when Neil interacts with other characters, he usually tries to have something resembling a conversation - one person says something, the other person replies, you get the idea.įor some reason, when Neil and the character Andrew talk to each other, it can’t be that way. When Neil speaks, he sounds like Watson answering a Jeopardy question. The majority of words spoken by the main character, Neil, are just explanations of the plot. What differs AFTG from other books is not only its mind-numbing violence but its choppy and unnatural dialogue. Is AFTG’s plot so mind blowing that it warrants creating a new genre of postmodern literature? No. I cared about every detail that was driving the plot forward, but at the beginning of the third book my patience snapped.Įven the characters who made a point of standing off to the side and proclaiming “I don’t care about this plot!” cared more about the plot than I did.īefore starting this trilogy, I read a Goodreads review claiming this trilogy was like no other book. Considering that I would have already lit any other sports book on fire, this is quite an accomplishment.įor the first two books, I was all in. When Nora Sakavic gave her explanation of how Exy is played in the epilogue of the first book, I even skimmed it. However, I got through a good amount of this trilogy. I don’t like watching them, I don’t like writing about them, and I usually don’t like reading about them. Everything about sports - going outside, getting sweaty, talking to people - is bad for me.
He has a troubled past and a secret identity.
This review is my attempt to tell the uninitiated what to expect. I first discovered Nora Sakavic’s All For the Game trilogy from a mood board on my Tumblr dash.Ĭombining the factors of people’s reactions to it, the canon demisexual character, and the general aesthetic of the book itself, I started reading it a few hours later.Īlthough I expected extreme violence, there are many aspects of Nora Sakavic’s All For The Game trilogy that were just…weird.
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