The Sunshine Court (All for the Game, Band 4)

𝚃𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚕: All for the Game, 4 - The Sunshine Court [📖] 𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚘𝚛/-𝚒𝚗: Nora Sakavic [📖] 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚐: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform [📖] 𝚁𝚎𝚒𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: All for the Game; 1 - The Foxhole Court, 2 - The Raven King, 3 - The King's Men, 4 - The Sunshine Court [📖] 𝙸𝚗𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚝: 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. [📖] 𝙲𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝙸𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚐: Das Cover ist weiß, mit dem Namen der Autorin in gelben bzw hellorangenen Buchstaben mit roter Umrandung am unteren Rand des Buches. Mittig ist eine aus rot, orange und gelb bestehende Blume abgebildet, mit dem Titel des Buches (in derselben Schrift wie der bei der Autorin genutzten) darüber. [📖] 𝙼𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚗𝚐: ❎ - manchmal kamen mir Dinge unrealistisch vor (beißen in Handrücken = Blut?) (um gerecht zu sein, die Bücher sind alle etwas weird 😅) - hier wieder dasselbe wie mit dem 2. und 3. Band: eine Trigger Warnung bzgl der angesprochenen und beschriebenen Themen wäre nicht fehl am Platz gewesen ⚠️ - es wird eine Fortsetzung geben, aber es ist noch nicht bekannt, wann 🕒❓ ✅ - das Cover war zwar sehr schlicht, aber passend 📔 - es war interessant, die ehemaligen (Haupt)charaktere aus anderen Sichten zu sehen 👀 - es gab diesmal zwei PoV's, was für angenehme/interessante Sichtwechsel gesorgt hat 👥 - hinten im Buch war die Aufstellung des neuen Teams aufgelistet 📋 - das EBook war recht günstig 💵 - das Buch war wieder mitreißend und hatte einen schnellen Schreibstil 📖 [📖] 𝙻𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚏𝚎𝚑𝚕𝚞𝚗𝚐: Ja ✅, dieses Buch ist eine gute Fortsetzung mit diesmal schnellerer Romance zu der Trilogie um Neil Josten und die Palmetto State Foxes herum, und ich habe es sehr gerne gelesen 📖. Hoffentlich gibt es die Fortsetzung dazu möglichst bald 🔜📚..

This is technically vol. 4 of the "All for the Game" series. After the trilogy, it now continues with Jean's story, and I think it's going to be another trilogy. I personally wouldn't have needed a sequel, but I am really glad it exists now and excited for the story to continue. So, idk where to even start. This book had barely any story in that sense. The first, like 100 pages, was just the end of volume 3 in Jean's POV. Still important to see his reactions and get his feelings and thoughts about everything. That is also what most of this book is, feelings, thoughts, and the resulting conversations. After what we already knew happened, this is now about Jean getting to know his new team, the Trojans, especially Jeremy, who also has many POV chapters. Around the end is more drama, but other than that, there is not much plot. So you might be wondering what is even happening throughout the whole book? The answer is trauma, trauma, and trauma. Jean's mind is in a dark place and justifiably so. We get much more insight of the abuse he had to face from the Ravens. I didn't think I would be able to hate Riko even more, but here we are. As sad as it was, it was interesting to read since it was well written. You could think he must be happy to be out of that situation, but that's not how it works. At first, he even wanted to go back. When all you know is to endure and the only place where you know how to gets taken away from you, it's inevitable to feel lost. He doesn't believe he deserves anything else, and I felt so sorry for him, but he is slowly getting better thanks to the people around him. It's also interesting how the abuse is described. It's never super detailed and sometimes rather vage when it just gets dropped out of nowhere, I had to reread many lines to be sure I understood that right, but that makes it even more shocking. Also, since you think you knew everything about it from the other books, but we never got to hear details from Jean, and his position was a different one. These books are really only for people who can deal with those topics (read the trigger warnings) and don't mind character driven stories. For me, both are not a problem, and I enjoy them a lot. I am also excited for the hinted at slowburn romance 👀💕 I just hope it's not getting too dramatic overall because we already had a happy end, and I don't like it when it gets destroyed after the original ending. Of course, Jean's story is still ongoing, but I liked the end for Neil and don't want him to get too mixed up in this. He and Kevin appeared a few times here since they are all involved in the same problem, but I can't imagine it getting as big as in volume 3 again. Well, we'll see 😅

It's interesting to see Jean's story. I feel sorry for him on many levels. It's interesting to see him slowly learning how to be human again. I'm not sure what else to say yee I liked it a lot tho.