My thoughts on All for the Game:

• So I’ve read (technically listened to) The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, and The King’s Men. I’m pretty sure that The Sunshine Court and The Golden Raven are also part of the same universe, so I’m sure I’ll read those eventually as well.
• I think I had heard of it before, but always assumed it was a sports book, so didn’t really bother. But then I saw this post and thought “sure why not” and found it on Libby
• Even after I saw that post, I was not expecting it to immediately open with “I remember the day i fell in love with Exy, the day my father gored a man in front of my little baby eyes”
• Like absolutely wild book concept, but it works. (I mostly find it so crazy because it’s a book, I wouldn’t have bat an eye if it were an anime, show, comic even, just something visual, but it’s just seems wild for a book to me for some reason.)
• I know the book takes place in 2006 (I think) and they were written some years ago, but I kept thinking “Wymack you can’t say that anymore, you’re gonna get cancelled.”
• 100% thought that Neil was gonna end up with Kevin, although I was kinda wondering if he and Andrew would be a thing when Andrew nearly broke his ribs in their first meeting.
• Honestly kinda just wondering if they’re all together or what. especially with the “Andrew at my back, Kevin at my side” thing in The King’s Men.
• Am I missing something about Andrew? Cause why does Kevin believe him when he says he can protect him? Like yeah, I sure as hell never want to get on his bad side, but like a mafia? They’re scared of some 5’ tall, 20 year old?
• Andrew’s my favorite character, but I honestly really like all the foxes. Maybe not Seth, but I would have liked to know more about him (too bad Neil just does not care if it’s not about Andrew or Exy)
• I see everyone pacing back and forth about Andrew and Aaron, which yeah, same, but I need more people talking about Andrew and Nicky. (And Aaron and nicky)
• Cause what do you mean Nicky dropped everything to become the legal guardian to his cousins? One of whom he literally never met.
• Nicky is such an underrated character to me, like yeah he acts like a flamboyant gay stereotype and kinda sucks sometimes, but I feel like there’s so much more there.
• Again, he dropped everything, including pausing his relationship with Eric (Erik?) to become the legal guardian to his cousins. And even after they turned 18, and he could have left to go back to Germany, he stayed.
• I wonder why Andrew never told Nicky he was gay, it’s not like Nicky would have been mad. Probably just didn’t really come up, and didn’t trust him to keep a secret.
• Where did the name Minyard come from? Hemmick is Nicky’s father’s name so one would assume it is also Tilda’s last name. Cause I was assuming that Tilda had the twins out of wedlock and is no longer in contact with the father, but now that I think about it, I’m not sure why I thought that.
• Maybe the twins’ father just died or something.
• I do really like how completely out-of-pocket everyone is, like mostly Neil, but every single one of those guys are at least a little weird.