Also, did we need a 30-page description of an exy game? I don’t think so. I also find that this book has a lot of exposure, especially in the first 30 percent, where nothing happens but we get even the most unnecessary minutiae. I have no idea how any of the characters look, and the hazy characteristics of theirs I have in mind are entirely due to the amount of fanart I have seen for this series. What I mean by this is that her writing isn’t particularly evocative – I find it hard to visualize anything she’s writing about. I find Sakavic’s writing to be sort of dull. I have a better understanding of Quidditch than I do of exy. If you asked me how it looks on the field, or how it’s structured, or anything about it, I would have nothing to say, despite the fact that Nora Sakavic spends 30 pages on descriptions of a single exy game. The other big problem with exy for me is that I absolutely have no way to visualize it. I can’t say that I appreciate it, but I can say that it’s r elatable.
I also feel like a made-up sport was an easy way out for Sakavic to avoid having to do too much research.
I mean if there’s a made-up sport than surely all of these other things will make sense. I don’t see how that could have happened, and I feel like a made-up sport was used to justify the completely ridiculous setup and plotline of this novel.
First of all, it seems pretty unlikely to me that a sport became as popular as exy supposedly did in such a short amount of time, and to the extent that it did. One of my biggest complaints when I first read this is that exy as a sport makes no sense. And let me tell you, rereading it kinda helped, because I did not hate it the second time around. I also partly reread it because everyone promised found families and even a romance, so I could not miss out on that. Not only that, I got hate for not liking it on Tumblr and people got so bothered with it, that I was determined to reread it, and like it this time around to avoid the dreadful judgment of the Tumblr community (it’s still there, it just migrated, you know who you are). The Foxhole Court was a Tumblr phenomenon back in the day, and naturally, when I first read it, I kind of hated it.
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