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Title:
All for the Game (series).

Media:
Books.

Approx length:
Four book series. HOWEVER. The first three make a complete series, with a single, deliciously unreliable narrator, approx 970 pages. Book 4 was only just released this year, many years after the main series. It’s dual POV of two of the barely mentioned side characters in the first three books, and they will have another book coming out in this ‘world’ sometime soon. ish. maybe. You don’t need to read book four (you absolutely need to read book four).

Where to find it:
eBook, audiobook (including spotify), libraries, hardcopy from amazon.
Book 1 is free on most ebook platforms, and the others are less than $2 each.

What is it, in summary?
All for the Game is bizarre and wonderful. Sports Gays! Made Up Sport! Mafia! Multiple Identities! Trauma! Dysfunctional College Students! Found Family! Slow-burn Romance!

The blurb for book one, The Foxhole Court, reads:
Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.

Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.

What do you love about it?
Did I mention it’s bizarre and wonderful?

The writing is, on one hand - not refined (it could have done with some editing, no doubt)- but on the other, it’s so fucking good, the storytelling is brilliant and the first time I finished the audio I literally went back to book one and started again.

The characters are real, and messy, and yeah, there’s romance here but it’s slooooow, and probably not in the direction you might think. The adults are also real, and messy. The bad guys are bad. The good guys are, also pretty fucked up.

I would die for every single one of the foxes. Fuck it, I’d probably even let them kill me.

Online reviews include things like:
1* DNF
1* This is the worst book ever i loved it
5* I loved everything about this book i’ve read it fifteen times in three years i am obsessed

The fanart for this series is next level, and as for fics? GODS TIER. I will happily feed you when you’ve finished the series and come begging for more.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?
Canon compliant, canon divergent, alternate universe.
Fics, art, podfics, other clever creations.
Creator letter here.

Content notes
Are plentiful - this tumblr post has spoilery CWs, and this one is detailed, but not specifically spoilery.